Charlotte Bronte Quotes
It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.Charlotte Bronte
Quotes to Explore
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Rabindranath Tagore -
Smarter is always the answer.
Samuel J. Palmisano -
I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!
Abraham Polonsky -
I will just generalise it that anything that I find too disgusting is not worth an answer.
Yami Gautam -
I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.
Eartha Kitt -
I will not take 'but' for an answer.
Langston Hughes
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The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.
Karl Liebknecht -
Cheap meat is the problem. The answer is to replace meat recipes with vegan meals.
Ingrid Newkirk -
Genius sees the answer before the question.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
I'm an entertainer and I entertain people and they entertain me back by asking questions. And some of them I answer.
Carl Reiner -
The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.
Oswald Chambers -
When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.
Oswald Chambers
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The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.
Flann O'Brien -
They brought me in and told me they were probably going to pick the option up. You always want to earn whatever you get. I take a lot pride in that. He didn't have to bring me in today. I appreciate that. When I was a free agent, a lot of teams called and I really didn't answer. There was only one place, and that still remains the same. I don't want to play for nobody else but the Yankees.
Gary Sheffield -
I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
Xenocrates -
Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue
Zeno of Citium -
Well, it's not my fault that you can't manage your money.' You threw away my purse.' I thought it was an enemy.
Robert Farrell Smith -
He [Barack Obama] talked about a crisises and he was blaming the Republicans on this crisises. It's like me blaming my wife for my drinking. I don't se how this is the Republicans fault.
Barack Obama
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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run; a thousand people read his work who would read no other; inquiry is directed to each of his doctrines; it is soon discovered what is sound and what is false; the sound become maxims, and the false beacons.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
I've always looked at directing as the next step for me in my creative career, and after spending the better part of the last decade on a television set absorbing as much as I could from in front of the camera, I'm now eager to learn as much as I can from behind it.
Ian Anthony Dale -
The more you're drowning in familiarity, the better the fun is. It requires less novelty to produce even more gratification. And it's something that didn't come from you. It was about the other thing - the thing you were experiencing, or the people you were with, or the mechanism you were operating, or whatever it might be.
Ian Bogost -
It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.
Charlotte Bronte