George William Curtis
Quotes by George William Curtis
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
— George William Curtis
Happiness lies first of all in health.
— George William Curtis
Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!
— George William Curtis
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
— George William Curtis
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
— George William Curtis
Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
— George William Curtis
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
— George William Curtis
The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
— George William Curtis
Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
— George William Curtis
The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
— George William Curtis