The plainest man that can convince a woman that he is really in love with her has done more to make her… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The integrity that lives only on opinion would starve without it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
