Charles Caleb Colton Quotes - Page 27

• Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn the world. Earth would become an hell; for future rewards when put off to a great distance, would cease to encourage, and future punishments to alarm.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Distance, Men, World

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.201

  4 Copy quote

• The integrity that lives only on opinion would starve without it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Integrity, Opinion

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.125

  4 Copy quote

• Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Powerful, Heart, Vanity

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.144

  10 Copy quote

• The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Storm, Thunder, Calamity

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.32

  7 Copy quote

• Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind is warranted by reasons. Better is an obstinant disputant, that yieldeth inch by inch, Than the shallow traitor to himself, who surrendereth to half an argument.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Teaching, Knowledge, Yield

  4 Copy quote

• The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Law, Land, Tree

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.221

  4 Copy quote

• Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Life, Soul, Prison

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.344

  4 Copy quote

• Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Light, Moral, Sometimes

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.421

  4 Copy quote

• Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Heart, Wine

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.218

  30 Copy quote

• He that can please nobody is not so much to be pitied as he that nobody can please.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Please

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.122

  4 Copy quote

• There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hate, Half, World

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

  4 Copy quote

• Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it; since nothing is so easy as to fancy a very beautiful woman extremely witty.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Beautiful, Witty, Jewels

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.86

  7 Copy quote

• Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Envy, Victory, Spy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.436

  6 Copy quote

• Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Power, Giving, Exaltation

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.23

  6 Copy quote

• Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Peace, Stars, Two

  4 Copy quote

• Like the rainbow, peace rests upon the earth, but its arch is lost in heaven. Heaven bathes it in hues of light--it springs up amid tears and clouds--it is a reflection of the eternal sun--it is an assurance of calm--it is the sign of a great covenant between God and man--it is an emanation from the distant orb of immortal light.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Peace, Spring, Reflection

  4 Copy quote

• Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Mean, Literature

  10 Copy quote

• Mystery is not profoundness.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wisdom, Intelligence, Literature

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

  7 Copy quote

• The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Opinion, Made, Mass

  4 Copy quote

• Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from another. But it is in love as in war, we are often more indebted for our success to the weakness of the defence than to the energy of the attack; for mere idleness has ruined more women than passion; vanity more than idleness, and credulity more than either.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Love, War, Passion

  7 Copy quote

• When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Done, Literature, Harm

  7 Copy quote

• Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Time, All Things

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.290

  4 Copy quote

• There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Power, Two, Age

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.26

  4 Copy quote

• It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Learning, Enemy, Literature

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.154

  8 Copy quote

• Deformity of the heart I call
  The worst deformity of all;
  For what is form, or what is face,
  But the soul's index, or its case?

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heart, Soul, Faces

  7 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

John Churton Collins

George William Curtis

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Sun Tzu

O. Henry

Clarence Budington Kelland

James Ramsey Ullman

Soren Kierkegaard