Charles Caleb Colton: Quotes about pleasure

Charles Caleb Colton was British priest and writer. Explore interesting quotes on pleasure.

Charles Caleb Colton: 76 quotes 6 likes

“Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory—of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.”

Charles Caleb Colton

Vol. II; XXXVIII
Lacon (1820)

Pain , Pleasure , Memory , Forgetting

“To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it; the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.”

Charles Caleb Colton

Source: Lacon (1820) Vol. I; CCCCXXVII (7th Edition, published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, in 1821)

Pleasure , Pain

“To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it;”

Charles Caleb Colton

Vol. I; CCCCXXVII (7th Edition, published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, in 1821)
Lacon
Context: To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it; the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.

Pain , Pleasure

“With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.”

Charles Caleb Colton

Vol. II; XVII
Lacon (1820)

Pleasure , Law , Birth