Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

We ask advice but we mean approbation.

Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.

If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.

Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.

Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.