Cause Quotes. Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922

Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Cause


To all facts there are laws, The effect has its cause, and I mount to the cause. Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton)—Lucile. Pt. II. Canto III. St. 8.	1
Causa latet: vis est notissima. The cause is hidden, but the result is known. Ovid—Metamorphoses. IV. 287.	2
Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad. Pope—Epilogue to Satires. Dialogue 2. L. 205.	3
Your cause doth strike my heart. Cymbeline. Act I. Sc. 6. L. 118.	4
Find out the cause of this effect, Or rather say, the cause of this defect, For this effect defective comes by cause. Hamlet. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 101.	5
God befriend us, as our cause is just! Henry IV. Pt. I. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 120.	6
Mine’s not an idle cause. Othello. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 95.	7
Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things. Vergil—Georgics. II. 490.	8