Charles Caleb Colton Quote

We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both judge, jury, and executioner, and where sophistry cannot overcome the first, or flattery the second, self-love is always ready to defeat the sentence by bribing the third.


Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan (ed. 1823)


We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both...

We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both...

We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both...

We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both...