Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

• To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

• The debt which cancels all others.

  Charles Caleb Colton

• There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

  Charles Caleb Colton

• Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

  Charles Caleb Colton

• They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

  Charles Caleb Colton

• It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

  Charles Caleb Colton

• Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

  Charles Caleb Colton

• Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

  Charles Caleb Colton

• The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

  Charles Caleb Colton

• When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.

  Charles Caleb Colton

• Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

  Charles Caleb Colton

• We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

  Charles Caleb Colton

• Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

• Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.

  Charles Caleb Colton

• It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

  Charles Caleb Colton

• Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.

  Charles Caleb Colton

• Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

• Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

  Charles Caleb Colton

• Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

  Charles Caleb Colton

• Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.

  Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton (187)

Birth:	1780
Death:	1832
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Writer

About

Charles Caleb Colton was an English writer. He was educated at Eton and King's College, graduating with a B.A. in 1801 and an M.A. Colton's books, including collections of epigrammatic aphorisms and short essays on conduct, though now almost forgotten, had a phenomenal popularity in their day. Toward the end of 1820, Colton published Lacon, or Many Things in Few Words, addressed to those who think., in a small cheap edition.

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