Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.

No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

I'm incredibly lazy!

I'm a lazy creature when I'm not acting.

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.

That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan himself were to write a book it would be in praise of virtue, because the good would purchase it for use, and the bad for ostentation.

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.

I think most people, and I'm talking vamp or human, are shitty. They put on an act. They pretend to be all nicey-nice, but are really just one step away from showing their true asshole-ness.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

When he [the slothful person] is pressed to be diligent, either in his worldly affairs or in the business of religion, this is his excuse (and a sorry excuse it is as bad as none).

I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up.

Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.

The sluggard is a living insensible.

There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest.

Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.

There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.

An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim that it is better to walk than to run, and better to stand than to walk, and better to sit than to stand, and better to lie than to sit. He hugs himself into the notion, that God calls him to be quiet.