Consist

Famous quotes containing the word consist:

    Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelist honours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)