Meanings of constant quantity in English

Beckett said the tears of the world are a constant quantity.

And yet that is not a constant quantity either.

There are rarer singers, and birds of more brilliant plumage, but he is the constant quantity.

Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot includes the line: The tears of the world are a constant quantity.

But man's nature remains a constant quantity.

The actual amount of ice-cap accumulated about the two poles of the earth, is also a constant quantity.

It should be borne in mind that the quantity of barium sulphate in this!saturated solution is a constant quantity!

Now an ounce of zinc, like an ounce of coal, produces by its complete combustion in air a constant quantity of heat.

For them there is no such thing as the impossible, nothing is improbable; fairyland is a constant quantity and the supernatural quite familiar.

The weight of his body-which ,notbeing a constant quantity, is at all times an unsafe standard-wouldnot serve in the present instance.

In every rank of society (some few Parisian salons excepted) the curious observer finds folly a constant quantity beneath a more or less transparent varnish.

They are constant quantities.

The manner of their dying is very varied, yet there are two constant quantities in each successive narrative, namely, violence and comparative youth.