Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Coltonwas an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
love love-is alchemist
Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food.
book merit lovers
We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.
love friendship heartbreak
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
love passion sensual
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
love wise men
Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.
heart love-is self
We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both judge, jury, and executioner, and where sophistry cannot overcome the first, or flattery the second, self-love is always ready to defeat the sentence by bribing the third.
opportunity female lovers
Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
love men done
The plainest man that can convince a woman that he is really in love with her has done more to make her in love with him than the handsomest man, if he can produce no such conviction. For the love of woman is a shoot, not a seed, and flourishes most vigorously only when ingrafted on that love which is rooted in the breast of another.
love war passion
Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from another. But it is in love as in war, we are often more indebted for our success to the weakness of the defence than to the energy of the attack; for mere idleness has ruined more women than passion; vanity more than idleness, and credulity more than either.
love baths vices
Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it, it will either heighten our virtues, or inflame our vices.
hate men love-hate
Most men know what they hate, few what they love.
love happiness dream
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
love running self-esteem
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
born men order twice
Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.