Charles Caleb Colton Quote

A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.


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


A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on...

A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on...

A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on...

A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on...