Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISReputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISCriticism is not construction, it is observation.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISA tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISVirtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISProgress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISAnger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISTrue invective requires great imagination.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISOur great social and political advantage is opportunity.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISPatriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISFor nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISLife is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISI walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: “Dreamer, dream no more!”
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they’ve reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you’re just horny. It doesn’t mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS