The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare: but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common; for jealousy can… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often… — 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 pride of ancestry is a superstructure of the most imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. It is ridiculous… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There is more jealousy between rival wits than rival beauties, for vanity has no sex. But in both cases there must be… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. — 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
Many ... begin to make converts from motives of charity, but continue to do so from motives of pride. ... Charity is… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps… — 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
