Charles Caleb Colton (1777-1832)

Quotes

• Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

• To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

• Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

• When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

• There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

• None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.