Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.

-Addison,Joseph
  Cato, act 4, sc.1, l.319^21.

I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Philippians 4:11.

Nothing less will content me, than wholeAmerica.

-Burke, Edmund
  On Conciliation with  America.

A belief is made religious, not so much by its content, as rather by the way it is held.

-Cupitt, Rev Don
  The Sea of Faith.

Le colonialisme ne se satisfait pas d'enserrer le peuple dans ses mailles, de vider le cerveau colonise¤   de toute forme et de tout contenu. Par une sorte de perversion de la logique, il s'oriente vers le passe¤   du peuple opprime¤  , le distort, le de¤  figure, l'ane¤  antit. Colonialismisnot satisfiedmerely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native's brain of all form and content. Bya kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures and destroys it.

-Fanon, Frantz Omar
Les Damne¤  s de la terre ( The Wretched of the Earth, translated by Constance Farrington,1965), ch.4,'On National Culture'.

Les oeuvres les plus belles sont celles o  u' il y a le moins de matie'  re; plus l'expression se rapproche de la pense¤  e, plus le mot colle dessus et dispara|"t, plus c'est beau. Je crois que l'avenir de l'art est dans ces voies. The most beautiful works are those that have the least content; the closer the expression is to the thought, the more indistinguishable the word from the content, the more beautiful is the work. I believe that the future of art lies in this direction.

-Flaubert, Gustave
  Letter to Mme Louise Colet,16  Jan.

Let us draw upon content for the deficiencies of fortune.

-Goldsmith, Oliver
  The Vicar of  Wakefield, ch.3.

Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.

-Heywood,Thomas
c.1607  A Woman Killed  with Kindness, sc.7.

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.

-Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)
  A Shropshire Lad, no.40.

There are passages of Ulysses which can be read only in the toiletöif one wants to extract the full flavour of their content.

-Miller, Henry Valentine
  Black Spring,'A Saturday Afternoon'.

The atrocious crime of being a young man, which [Walpole] has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies cease with their youth, and not of those who continue ignorant in spite of their age and experience.

-Pitt,William, 1st Earl of Chatham known as  the Elder
  Speech to the House of Commons, 6 Mar.

A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor. In the end you have to be content with his common humanity.

-Shaw, George Bernard
 The Bishop of Chelsea. Getting Married.

Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  'StanzasWritten in Dejection, near Naples'.

Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life, which he representeth in the most ridiculous and scornful sort that may be, so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to be such a one.

-Sidney, Sir Philip
  The Defence of Poetry.

Looking back, I am content.Win or lose I have told you the truth as I see it. I have said what I meant and meant what I said.

-Stevenson, Adlai E(wing)
  Concluding his campaign. Reported in Time,10 Sep.

An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease and alternate labour, useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!

-Thomson,James pseudonym 'BV',ByssheVanolis
  The Seasons,'Spring', l.1161^4.

The word 'revolution' is a word for which you kill, for which you die, for which you send the labouring masses to their deaths; but which does not contain any content.

-Weil, Simone
Oppression and Liberty (translated byA F Wills andJ Petrie, published1958).

Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road.

-Whitman,Walt(er)
  Leaves of Grass,'Song of the Open Road', section1.