John Churton Collins Quotes

• In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

  John Churton Collins

  Topics in Friendship

• Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

  John Churton Collins

  Topics in Emotion

• Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

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• If we knew each other’s secrets, what comforts we should find.

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• A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

  John Churton Collins

• A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

  John Churton Collins

• Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

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  Topics in Truth

• Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.

  John Churton Collins

  Topics in Truth

• To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.

  John Churton Collins

  Topics in Advice

John Churton Collins (9)

Birth:	26th March, 1848
Death:	25th September, 1908
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Critic

About

John Churton Collins was born in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England. He was a British literary critic. He graduated from Balliol College, Oxford in 1872. He served as a professor of English literature at Birmingham University in 1904. He wrote several books include: Bolingbroke, The Study of English Literature, Essays and Studies, and Ephemera critica.

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