George William Curtis Quotes
"The test of civilization is its estimate of women."
- George William Curtis
(Related: Women, Civilization)
"The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose."
- 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
(Related: Men, Women, Mistake)
"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
(Related: Poetry, Time, Romance, Conversation, Memory, Prose)
"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
(Related: Intelligence, Thoughts, Approval, Deeds, Fame, Mankind, Reputation)
"Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow."
- George William Curtis
(Related: Liberty, Sorrow)
"Nature makes woman to be won and men to win."
- George William Curtis
(Related: Men, Nature, Woman)
"Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge."
- George William Curtis
(Related: Anger, Men, Income, Luxury)
"It is not observed in history that families improve with time."
- George William Curtis
(Related: History, Time)
"Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!"
- George William Curtis
(Related: Imagination)
"Happiness lies first of all in health."
- George William Curtis
(Related: Happiness, Health, First, Lies)
"Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer."
- George William Curtis
(Related: History, Crisis)
"Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom."
- George William Curtis
(Related: Wisdom, Books)
"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
(Related: Patriotism, Country, Land, Loyalty, Man, Mountains, Rivers)
"While we read history we make history."
- George William Curtis
(Related: History)
"It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage."
- George William Curtis