Quotes by 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
Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.
– George William Curtis
Happiness lies first of all in health.
– George William Curtis
He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.
– George William Curtis
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
– George William Curtis
Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
– 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
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
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
– George William Curtis
While we read history we make history.
– George William Curtis
The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
– 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
Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!
– George William Curtis
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
– George William Curtis
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
– George William Curtis