Constancy

Constancy is the quality of being constant; steadiness or faithfulness in action, affections, purpose, and so forth. It indicates an unchanging quality or characteristic of a person or thing. It is the opposite of inconstancy.

Quotes

Through perils both of wind and limb,
Through thick and thin she follow'd him.
- Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part I (1663-64), Canto II, line 369.

Changeless march the stars above,
Changeless morn succeeds to even;
And the everlasting hills,
Changeless watch the changeless heaven.
- Charles Kingsley, Saint's Tragedy (1848), Act II, scene 2.

Now from head to foot
I am marble-constant: now the fleeting moon
No planet is of mine.
- William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act V, scene 2, line 238.

O constancy, be strong upon my side,
Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue!
I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.
- William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar (1599), Act II, scene 4, line 7.

I could be well moved if I were as you;
If I could pray to move, prayers would move me;
But I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true fix'd and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.
- William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar (1599), Act III, scene 1, line 58.

He that parts us shall bring a brand from heaven,
And fire us hence like foxes.
- William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act V, scene 3, line 22.

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore;
To one thing constant never.
- William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99), Act II, scene 3, line 64. See also Thomas Percy—The Friar of Orders Gray.

If ever thou shalt love,
In the sweet pangs of it remember me;
For such as I am all true lovers are;
Unstaid and skittish in all motions else,
Save in the constant image of the creature
That is belov'd.
- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (c. 1601-02), Act II, scene 4, line 15.

I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything and their intent everywhere; for that's it that always makes a good voyage of nothing.
- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (c. 1601-02), Act II, scene 4, line 77.

O heaven! were man
But constant, he were perfect. That one error
Fills him with faults; makes him run through all the sins:
Inconstancy falls off ere it begins.
- William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590s), Act V, scene 4, line 109.

She had become such an integral part of my life that, without her light, presence, and solace, I would feel incomplete.
- Sanu Sharma, Bhaujoo

One who desperately tries to shatter and ruin a long-standing relationship for being incapable of handling a single 'no'—how would they react to hearing countless 'no's once the relationship deepens? I am no longer willing to maintain a relationship that can be deteriorated by a single 'no'."
- Sanu Sharma, Jigree

Through thick and thin, both over banck and bush,
In hope her to attaine by hooke or crooke.
- Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1589-96), Book III, Canto I, Stanza 17.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 132-33.

'Tis often constancy to change the mind.
- John Hoole, Metastasio, Sieves.

Abra was ready ere I call'd her name;
And, though I call'd another, Abra came.
- Matthew Prior, Solomon on the Vanity of the World, Book II, line 364.