#confound

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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The attempt and not the deed confounds us. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#confounds #deed #us

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art. ↗

— Kit Williams

#art #beautiful #confound #create #engineering

Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries. ↗

— Henry Wotton

#confound #puzzle #tell #truth #your

The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#been #confounding #economy #improvement #obstacles

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house. ↗

— Aeschylus

#god #guilt #house #implants #mortal

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. ↗

— Aristotle

#confounded #great #great city #populous

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#enemy #evil #good #good and evil

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her. ↗