Author: Frank Moore Colby

Quotes

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

- Frank Moore Colby

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

- Frank Moore Colby

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

- Frank Moore Colby

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

- Frank Moore Colby

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

- Frank Moore Colby

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

- Frank Moore Colby

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.

- Frank Moore Colby

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

- Frank Moore Colby

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

- Frank Moore Colby

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