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George William Curtis

10 quotes

George William Curtis is one of those voices you encounter and immediately want to hear more from. Their thinking spans from Women to Wisdom, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. Our collection holds 14 quotes from George William Curtis, each offering a different angle on Women, Wisdom, Romantic, Poetry, and Patriotism. Among their most shared lines: "Happiness lies first of all in health."

“The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.”

— George William Curtis

Women

All Quotes by George William Curtis

“Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.”

— George William Curtis

Intelligence

“Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.”

— George William Curtis

Anger

“Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.”

— George William Curtis

Poetry

“Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!”

— George William Curtis

Imagination

“Happiness lies first of all in health.”

— George William Curtis

Fitness

“A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.”

— George William Curtis

Patriotism

“Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.”

— George William Curtis

Wisdom

“The test of civilization is its estimate of women.”

— George William Curtis

Women

“The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.”

— George William Curtis

Women

“Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.”

— George William Curtis

Women