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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 test of civilization is its estimate of women.”

— George William Curtis

Women

All Quotes by George William Curtis

“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

“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

“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

“Happiness lies first of all in health.”

— George William Curtis

Fitness

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

— George William Curtis

Wisdom

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

— George William Curtis

Women

“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

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

— George William Curtis

Imagination

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

— George William Curtis

Anger

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

— George William Curtis

Women