"Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity."
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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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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that…
— William Blake
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Art is significant deformity.
— Roger Fry
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Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other,…
— Bernard de Mandeville
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Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.
— Dean Acheson
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Thou lump of foul deformity!
— William Shakespeare
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It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is…
— Max Beerbohm
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I was born with lots of deformities.
— Gemma Arterton
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The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to…
— Patrick Henry
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By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea,…
— Margaret Sanger
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My coat and I live comfortably togther. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded…
— Victor Hugo
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