Charles Caleb Colton Quotes About Lust

Quotes about: Lust

• It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mistake, Power, Order

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.88

• Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Lust, Fortune

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.153

• So long as lust, whether of the world or flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sweet, Smell, Long

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