Bleak Quote by Charles Caleb Colton Download Open image “Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate.” — Charles Caleb Colton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bleak Coward Desolate Envy Hate Sides Way
People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it. — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Envy is more irreconcilable than hate. It is the most corroding of all political vices and also a great power in our land. The… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out… — Richard Whately 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
Single-sex private schools, especially in the middle of nowhere on a bleak hill in County Durham - I don't think they make sense. — Giles Deacon Copy Share Image
I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's. — Andrea Arnold Copy Share Image
I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager in the… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion. — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nothing that's ever happened has taken away the optimist in me. It's always, "Whatever-let's go to Disneyland." Yes, I have my bleak, tortured-artist moments,… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
I think because the show ["Grant MacLaren"] is essentially a hopeful show. The show says that as bleak as the future is, the one… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As when on… — Clark Ashton Smith Copy Share Image
Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
“Life, on Hardcore mode, she thought with a twinge of bleak humor. No do-overs. No save files. Harper” — Annie Bellet Copy Share Image