There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: honesty reputation praise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Charles Caleb Colton Charles Caleb Colton (bapt. 11 December 1777 – 28 April 1832) was an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities.
More quotations from Charles Caleb Colton To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: power Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: money grace propriety Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: hate knowledge intimacy familiarity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: religion morality fighting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: power Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: money grace propriety Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: hate knowledge intimacy familiarity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: religion morality fighting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “praise” Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend. —Alexander Pope More about this quote Tags: praise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life. —Edith Sitwell More about this quote Tags: life poetry glory praise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. —W. Somerset Maugham More about this quote Tags: criticism hypocrisy praise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The sweetest of all sounds is praise. —Xenophon More about this quote Tags: compliments flattery praise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living. —Eric Hoffer More about this quote Tags: life death affection praise affinity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend. —Alexander Pope More about this quote Tags: praise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life. —Edith Sitwell More about this quote Tags: life poetry glory praise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. —W. Somerset Maugham More about this quote Tags: criticism hypocrisy praise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The sweetest of all sounds is praise. —Xenophon More about this quote Tags: compliments flattery praise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living. —Eric Hoffer More about this quote Tags: life death affection praise affinity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email