Charles Dickens Quotes

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Charles Dickens

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• I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Confidence
  • Better
  • Thanks

• I've been working hard: lots of therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, yoga too.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Yoga
  • Speech
  • Working Hard

• Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Speech

• Home is the nicest word there is.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Home
  • Word
  • Nicest

• Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Why
  • Me
  • Forever

• More than 200,000 kids have had their lives transformed by ARK. I use that word properly.

  

  Ian Wace
  • Kids
  • More
  • Word

• My favorite word was a word James Lapine used repeatedly in 'Sunday in the Park with George,' which was the word 'connect.' All I want to do is connect.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Want
  • Word
  • Sunday

• Tears at times have the weight of speech.

  

  Ovid
  • Tears
  • Speech
  • Weight

• Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Hands
  • Old
  • Speech

• One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Way
  • Looking
  • Speech

• Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

  Ford Frick
  • Word
  • Last
  • Sarcasm

• 'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Word
  • Feminist
  • Feminism

• I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Love
  • Word
  • Written

• Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Knowledge
  • Imagination
  • Word

• I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Opinion
  • Word
  • Through

• A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Speech
  • Master
  • Policies

• Word of mouth travels faster than anything else.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Word
  • Anything
  • Mouth

• Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Religious
  • Equality
  • Speech

• We no longer live in an era in which foreign policymakers can claim to serve their nations' interests treating what happens to people in other countries as an afterthought... What happens to people in other countries matters. It matters to the welfare of our own nations and our own citizens.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Live
  • Welfare

• Lipstick is always in, whether it's matte, creamy, glossy, and so on.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Always
  • Lipstick
  • Whether

• Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies And Videotape, and if you hang around long enough you're having the same arguments with just a new set of people every few years and it gets boring.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Sex
  • Lies
  • Arguments

• Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added).

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Fear
  • Pain
  • Deeds

• A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Word
  • Speech
  • Earnest