"Wit may do very well for a mistress,……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife."
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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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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
— Francis Bacon
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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
— Francis Bacon
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
— Honore de Balzac
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Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
— Henry Adams
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It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.
— Annie Besant
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over,…
— Lord Byron
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with…
— Anton Chekhov
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days…
— Lord Chesterfield
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For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs…
— Ernestine Rose
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As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention,…
— William Shakespeare
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