Donald Grant Mitchell Quotes

• Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose - easily trimmed off when once plucked. Flirtation is like the slime on water-plants, making them hard to handle, and when caught, only to be cherished in slimy waters.

  Donald Grant Mitchell

  Flirting, Water, Rose

  Donald Grant Mitchell (1852). “Reveries of a bachelor: or, A book of the heart, by Ik. Marvel”, p.78

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• But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

  Donald Grant Mitchell

  Mean, Anxiety, Wealth

  Donald Grant Mitchell (1851). “Reveries of a Bachelor: Or A Book of the Heart”, p.135

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• The Spaniards have a saying that there is no man whom Fortune does not visit at least once in his life.

  Donald Grant Mitchell

  Men, Doe, Fortune

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• Hard, withering toil only can achieve a name; and long days and months and years must be passed in the chase of that bubble, reputation, which, when once grasped, breaks in your eager clutch into a hundred lesser bubbles, that soar above you still.

  Donald Grant Mitchell

  Ambition, Years, Names

  Donald Grant Mitchell (1851). “Reveries of a Bachelor: Or A Book of the Heart”, p.127

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