Charles Dickens Quotes

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond — sometimes better; as in the present case, where his bond might prove but a doubtful sort of security.

Charles Dickens

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• Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May
  • Faith
  • Belief

• Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • Beauty
  • Personal
  • Reference

• I have to be seen to be believed.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Believed
  • Seen

• I was never that kid who used to brag about anything.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Never
  • Kid
  • Used

• Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Human
  • Potential

• I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Think
  • Crime
  • Worst

• For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • People
  • World
  • Want

• When you procrastinate, you're more likely to let your mind wander. That gives you a better chance of stumbling onto the unusual and spotting unexpected patterns.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Mind
  • Chance
  • Unexpected

• There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

  

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
  • You
  • Seeing
  • Pen

• I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Why
  • Success
  • Day

• I had this maroon 'Lion King' tracksuit that my mum couldn't take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Me
  • King
  • Lion

• I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the fact that I've got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it's important for people to watch someone normal.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Important
  • Mind

• In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Different
  • Fear
  • Religion

• Coming up with novel ideas and converting them into real products has always been as natural as breathing for me.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Always
  • Ideas
  • Natural

• Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Me

• I feel like if I'm sick, I need flowers. I'm very open about saying what I need from a partner, and he needs to meet those demands.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Sick
  • Partner
  • Saying

• There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Way
  • Spinning
  • Villages

• I found myself with a wife and kids, and some of my friends weren't around as much. They weren't calling as much, and I didn't quite know what it was. Someone said, "Yeah, I recently lost one of my closest friends. He got his finger stuck in a wedding ring." And I thought, "Oh, that's what's happening! We're all going off and making our own families."

  

  Scott Foley
  • Kids
  • Wife
  • Fingers

• If you're a kid at a secondary comprehensive in North London as I was in the seventies, prancing around doing acting and being a luvvie wasn't really a good idea for your personal security.

  

  Steve McFadden
  • Acting
  • Idea
  • Security

• Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Standard

• God, here and there, makes madness a calling.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Madness
  • Calling

• The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond — sometimes better; as in the present case, where his bond might prove but a doubtful sort of security.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Security
  • Prove
  • Gentleman