Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton

English writer

Lived from: 1777 - 1832

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 11 december 1777 Died: 28 april 1832

  • The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation, as a feather and a guinea fall with equel velocity in a vacuum.

Quotes 1 till 20 of 115.

1 2 3 4 5 6 Next 
  • Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
    ― Charles Caleb Colton
    - +
    +2
  • Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
    ― Charles Caleb Colton
    - +
    +1
  • Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
    ― Charles Caleb Colton
    - +
    +1
  • Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
    ― Charles Caleb Colton
    - +
    +1
  • Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
    ― Charles Caleb Colton
    - +
    +1
  • Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
    ― Charles Caleb Colton
    - +
    +1
  • Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.
    ― Charles Caleb Colton
    - +
    +1
  • He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
    ― Charles Caleb Colton
    - +
    +1
  • He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
    ― Charles Caleb Colton
    - +
    +1
  • Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
    ― Charles Caleb Colton
    - +
    +1
  • It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
    ― Charles Caleb Colton
    - +
    +1
  • Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
    ― Charles Caleb Colton
    - +
    +1
  • Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men.
    ― Charles Caleb Colton
    - +
    +1
  • Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
    ― Charles Caleb Colton
    - +
    +1
  • Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
    ― Charles Caleb Colton
    - +
    +1
  • No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
    ― Charles Caleb Colton
    - +
    +1
  • None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
    ― Charles Caleb Colton
    - +
    +1
  • Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
    ― Charles Caleb Colton
    - +
    +1
  • Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
    ― Charles Caleb Colton
    - +
    +1
  • The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.
    ― Charles Caleb Colton
    - +
    +1
1 2 3 4 5 6 Next 
All Charles Caleb Colton famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com

Popular subjects

Popular authors