Consist

Famous quotes containing the word consist:

    “Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.”
    —Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)

    “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)

    “As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in all things, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.”
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)