Frank Moore Colby Quotes

Why need every honest poet be suspected of leading a quadruple life? Sometimes the second or third meaning is less interesting than the first, and the only really difficult thing about a poem is the critic's explanation of it. - Frank Moore Colby

We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way. - Frank Moore Colby

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist. - Frank Moore Colby

Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love. - Frank Moore Colby

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art. - Frank Moore Colby

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind. - Frank Moore Colby

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape. - Frank Moore Colby

Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive. - Frank Moore Colby

Reform often seems only the dislike of the blase for the people with animal spirits. - Frank Moore Colby

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise. - Frank Moore Colby

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