The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching. Charles Caleb Colton View this quote
All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise. Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues. Charles Caleb Colton
An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers. Charles Caleb Colton
Anger is practical awkwardness. Charles Caleb Colton
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive. Charles Caleb Colton
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. Charles Caleb Colton
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. Charles Caleb Colton
As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds. Charles Caleb Colton
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. Charles Caleb Colton
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret. Charles Caleb Colton
British priest and writer
January 1st, 1780 - January 1st, 1832
