Charles Dickens Quotes

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Charles Dickens

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• It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Religious
  • Speech
  • Charming

• 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
  • Word
  • More

• 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

• The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Word
  • Term
  • Expressing

• Someday. That's a dangerous word. It's really just a code for 'never'.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Word
  • Dangerous
  • Code

• Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.

  

  Elizabeth Fishel
  • Competition
  • Gold
  • Sister

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

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Word
  • Speech
  • Earnest