Charles Dickens Quotes

"She's a very charming and delightful creature," quoth Mr. Robert Sawyer, in reply; "and has only one fault that I know of, Ben. It happens, unfortunately, that that single blemish is a want of taste. She don't like me."

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'm a perfectionist to a fault.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Fault
  • Perfectionist

• Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Character
  • Think
  • Attention

• I love my beauty. It's not my fault.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Love
  • Beauty
  • Fault

• Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • True
  • Problem
  • Improvement

• In 'Shaun of the Dead,' it's not Shaun's fault that there's a zombie apocalypse - he just has to get through the day.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Day
  • Dead
  • Fault

• If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Crime
  • Fault
  • Indifference

• It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Work
  • Victim
  • Fault

• The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Changing
  • Terrorism
  • Fault

• This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Mind
  • Weakness
  • Fault

• I'm not a creature of Washington.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Washington
  • Creature

• I'm a tooth person... I like quirky teeth. My husband has little teeth with spaces in between them. He hates them and I love them. I like people with buckteeth, and I like it when they crinkle a bit. It's very charming.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Like
  • Person
  • Very

• I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Image
  • Decided
  • Publicity

• I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned ten or so. Puberty hit like a hurricane and brought a new set of rules. All of a sudden it was my fault I was chubby.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Healthy
  • Cute
  • Fault

• It's only a hunting spider, it won't hurt you." -Myrnin "So not the point!" -Claire "Oh, pish. It's just another living creature. Nothing to be frightened of, if handled properly. I think I'll call him Bob. Bob the spider." -Myrnin "You're insane." -Claire

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Hurt
  • Hunting
  • Creature

• I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own f****** fault. You know where it is.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Fault
  • Pour

• Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Passion
  • Thought

• There is a great need today for all mankind to heed the plea to cease to find fault one with another. Some of us are so accustomed to wearing faultfinding spectacles that we cannot see past them. We need to open our eyes and ears and look for the good and the blessings around us.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Good
  • Great
  • Today

• After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.

  

  Farley Mowat
  • Hell
  • Fought
  • Kicked

• I often feel trapped. I often feel like I'm trying to escape some trap, be it a way of thinking, a compulsion, or a way of life. I believe this persistent feeling comes from childhood traumas that stripped away my power. The effect, though, the resulting persistent desire to stretch out of confinement even when confinement is inevitable, is a gift.

  

  Dawn Lundy Martin
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Childhood

• It's amazing how the world does actually go on in the middle of things that should stop it for us.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • World
  • Should
  • Middle

• What I say about 'This Is England' is they're like my best friends back home. Normal, working-class, beautiful people who I'm creative with.

  

  Michael Socha
  • People
  • Friends
  • Beautiful

• It is very important to transform every disadvantage into an advantage.

  

  Radhika Apte
  • Important
  • Advantage
  • Transform

• "She's a very charming and delightful creature," quoth Mr. Robert Sawyer, in reply; "and has only one fault that I know of, Ben. It happens, unfortunately, that that single blemish is a want of taste. She don't like me."

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Fault
  • Creature
  • Charming