91 Quotes by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur' to surrender it voluntarily.

A temperate anger has virtue in it.

As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element.

A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.

Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.

Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.

If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.

Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.

What a sight there is in that "smile!" it changes like a chameleon. There is a vacant smile, a cold smile, a smile of hate, a satiric smile, an affected smile; but, above all, a smile of love.