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Indeed Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come;…
- The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a…
- Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise…
- Philosophy is a goddess, whose head indeed is in heaven, but whose feet are upon earth; she attempts more than she accomplishes, and promises more…
- Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil.…
- Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such…
- Hypocrites act by virtue.... They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and processions; but the…
- Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but…
- The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it has been consolidated…
More Indeed Quotes
- I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. — Pietro Aretino
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. — Lucius Accius
- If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of… — Margaret Atwood
- Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it… — Saint Augustine
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it. — Sri Aurobindo
- Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to… — Ibrahim Babangida
- To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed,… — Charles Babbage
- God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. — Francis Bacon
- It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that'… — Douglas Adams
- Why have I been chosen to deliver the message of female intelligence and its divinity to a deaf world of males? I… — Roseanne Barr