"If rich, it is easy enough to conceal……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find that it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat."
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Charles Caleb Colton
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484 Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton has 484 quotes on this site.
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Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
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We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that…
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Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number;…
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Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us…
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There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud…
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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
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Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but…
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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer…
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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to…
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Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent:…
— Russell Baker
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I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?
— Clara Barton
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Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?
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I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.
— Albert Brooks
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I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the…
— Charlie Chaplin
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I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple…
— Tracy Chapman
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Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for…
— Hillary Clinton
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Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat…
— Dorothy Allison
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With the ministry's motto 'Research on a Shoestring' emblazoned on his coat of arms, he has to struggle with a…
— Harold Wilson
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It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
— Austin Phelps
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Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another…
— James F. Cooper
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