If we were consistent honourable gentlemen, into charybdis or on to Scylla we should go like lambs; every subterfuge by the help of which we escape our difficulty is but an arbitrary high-handed act of classification that turns a deaf ear to everything not robust enough to hold its own; nevertheless even the most scrupulous of philosophers pockets his consistency at a pinch, and refuses to let the native hue of resolution be sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, nor yet fobbed by the rusty curb of logic.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
We have a third class, who shun the rock upon which these last fall, but wreck upon another; they run upon scylla though they have missed charybdis; they escape the liquid destruction, but split upon the solid.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton
But no elaborate argument was needed to rouse a people convinced at last that they were in the vortex of charybdis.
"The Evolution of Sinn Fein"
Robert Mitchell Henry