Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Coltonwas an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
littles want wealth
Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.
enemy want ifs
If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.
society disease want
Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
women want ornaments
Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.
book names want
If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.
money greatest-wealth want
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
mean secret purpose
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
heart envy people
Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.
wise men may
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver.
knowledge performances pretension
The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.
time fool calendars
Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.
adversity blessing sometimes
Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
deceiving-others deception ends
It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.
rome purpose genius
Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such a monument of its power, may indeed be stamped with immortality, but like the Coliseum at Rome, we deplore its magnificence because we detest the purposes for which it was designed.