Console Quotes
What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.
Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.174, Simon and Schuster
'Pensèes' (1670) no. 553
Derek Walcott, William Baer (1996). “Conversations with Derek Walcott”, p.148, Univ. Press of Mississippi
The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious.
Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.322, Biblo & Tannen Publishers
There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.
Anne Bronte (2009). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.273, ReadHowYouWant.com
James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.446