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Charles Caleb Colton on Wedding

1777–1832 England

← All quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

5 quotes

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.

Lacon (1820)

A feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation.

Lacon (1820)

An elegant writer has observed, that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife.

Lacon (1820)

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

Lacon (1820)

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.

Lacon (1820)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Charles Caleb Colton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.