Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Coltonwas an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
women modest bashful
Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
currency should
Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
wisdom ifs
What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
wisdom character
The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.
wisdom perfection
Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts.
age waste excess
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
names inheritance proud
The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.
character long aging
Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.
storm thunder calamity
The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
sex vanity rivals
There is more jealousy between rival wits than rival beauties, for vanity has no sex. But in both cases there must be pretensions, or there will be no jealousy.
powerful heart vanity
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.
passion suffering blinded
So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.
husband wife adultery
Villains are usually the worst casuists, and rush into crimes to avoid less. Henry VIII. committed murder to avoid the imputation of adultery; and in our times, those who commit the latter crime attempt to wash off the stain of seducing the wife by signifying their readiness to shoot the husband.
real home thinking
We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.