Charles Dickens Quotes

Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.

Charles Dickens

• Candle
• Remembrance
• Christmas time

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• My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Up
  • Long
  • Night

• The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • World
  • Light
  • Candle

• When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Time
  • Children
  • Sea

• Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Day
  • Flame
  • Candle

• Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Faith
  • Proud
  • Walk

• Stay away from other people's partners.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • People

• I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.

  

  Douglas Wood

• My father earned every penny he had, and I would have loved to have bought him a Rolls-Royce because his whole life was cars. Sadly, he didn't live to see the day when I could have done that for him, which still hurts.

  

  Bruce Forsyth
  • Life
  • Live
  • Done

• The Internet is an actor's best friend.

  

  Armie Hammer
  • Friend

• Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

  

  Jeff Koons
  • Art
  • History

• A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.

  

  Ben Harper
  • World
  • Good
  • Light

• Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word... [it has] its own mysteries - this is my birth [control] pill; swallow it in remembrance of me!

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Society
  • Control
  • Beginning

• Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend.

  

  Don McLean
  • Friend
  • Fire
  • Devil

• God, please help us remember that all the darkness in the world cannot snuff out the light of one little candle. Help us to keep lighting our little candles until a mighty torch of justice sweeps our nation and the world.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • World
  • God
  • Remember

• Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • World
  • Blow
  • Strength

• I shall return, doubt it not. Such love as ours was not created to remain unfulfilled. Whatever may happen, believe and trust in me, as I shall in you, and keep the remembrance of me in your heart without sadness and without regret.

  

  Emma Orczy
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • May

• All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Expression
  • Appetite
  • Endless

• Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and that living kind of combustion which goes on within us. In every one of us there is a living process of combustion going on very similar to that of a candle, and I must try to make that plain to you. For it is not merely true in a poetical sense-the relation of the life of man to a taper; and if you will follow, I think I can make this clear.

  

  Michael Faraday
  • Relation
  • Candle
  • Combustion

• I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T will keep." I woke and chid my honest fingers,— The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Sleep
  • Remembrance
  • Jewel

• A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Women
  • Running
  • Mean

• It is the noisy bird which gets the stone from the catapult...

  

  Chenjerai Hove
  • Bird
  • Stone
  • Catapult

• Imagine yourself sitting on top of a great thoroughbred horse. You sit up there and you just feel that power. That's what it was like playing quarterback on that team the Pittsburgh Steelers. It was a great ride.

  

  Terry Bradshaw
  • Team
  • Horse
  • Imagine

• Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Candle
  • Remembrance
  • Christmas time