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Tag Name "Confounds" (18)

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A fool's wild speech confounds the wise.
Walter Scott
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The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
William Shakespeare
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The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite: Therefore love moderately— long love doth so.
William Shakespeare
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No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather.
William Shakespeare
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A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have to act as if it were, leaving reward aside.
Anne Truitt
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Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep, Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow, And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness.
Edwin Muir
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Nature confounds her summer distinctions at this season. The heavens seem to be nearer the earth. The elements are less reserved and distinct. Water turns to ice, rain to snow. The day is but a Scandinavian night. The winter is an arctic summer.
Henry David Thoreau
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Science confounds everything it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
Joseph Joubert
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Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax. (p. 24)
Stephan Pastis
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My cartoons appear in newspapers, which are full of words, but there's something about having it in this little box that confounds people's expectations.
Tom Tomorrow
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Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.
William Hazlitt
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He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get. I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself: So I, to find a mother and a brother, In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself.
William Shakespeare
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These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately long love doth so Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
William Shakespeare
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Ay beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.
William Shakespeare
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
Edmund Burke
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[William] Eggleston's photographs look like they were taken by a Martian who lost the ticket for his flight home and ended up working at a gun shop in a small town near Memphis. On the weekend he searches for the ticket - it must be somewhere - with a haphazard thoroughness that confounds established methods of investigation.
Geoff Dyer
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Love is the tyrant of the heart it darkens Reason, confounds discretion deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.
John Ford
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Is it acting a true vocation?... I say it is a gift...And fame? Neither sought nor expected... still confounds and amazes and disturbs. Whatever the reason... I am so very delighted that it did happen... I would not have missed it for the world.
Ruth Cracknell