Charles Dickens Quotes

An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.

Charles Dickens

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• If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• The mind is the effect, not the cause.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Mind
  • Cause
  • Effect

• Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Home
  • Think

• When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • World
  • Find
  • New

• At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Man
  • You
  • Realize

• The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • People
  • Good
  • Design

• Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • She
  • Mother
  • Responsibility

• Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up
  • Good
  • Dark

• Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.

  

  Karl Rahner
  • God
  • Reality
  • Grace

• He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare:At whatever time the deed took place-Macavity wasn't there.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time

• If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Difference
  • Unknown
  • Fame

• Perhaps it is the positive knowledge that humans now possess the means to destroy their whole planet, the fear that they have in this way themselves become the gods, dreadfully charged with their own continued existence, that has made comic-book and movie myth escapist.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Fear

• I need you, and with your love I'm free And truly, you know you're alright with me.

  

  Lionel Richie
  • Free

• ... none seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing, but from the abuse of a very good thing.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Abuse

• It is especially shocking that such a tragedy can go on, year after year, with the rest of the world paying so little attention to it. My Christmas message to Colombian refugees and to the millions of displaced people in Colombia is that the world has not totally forgotten them.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • World
  • Attention

• That is the fourth course, which in future I trust the right hon. Gentleman (Sir R. Peel) will not forget. The right hon. Gentleman tells us to go back to precedents; with him a great measure is always founded on a small precedent. He traces the steam-engine always back to the tea-kettle. His precedents are generally tea-kettle precedents.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Great
  • Future
  • Small

• In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Work
  • Thoughts

• I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet.

  

  Bobby McFerrin
  • School
  • Together
  • High

• Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.

  

  Beverly Cleary
  • Friend
  • Boy
  • Inspired

• De la musique avant toute chose,Et pour cela préfère l'ImpairPlus vague et plus soluble dans l'airSans rien en lui qui pèse ou qui pose.Il faut aussi que tu n'ailles pointChoisir tes mots sans quelque méprise:Rien de plus cher que la chanson griseOù l'Indécis au Précis se joint.

  

  Paul Verlaine

• I'll just say that there are times when TV shows, like 'The Honeymooners' or 'I Love Lucy' or something, where they're totally in their stride, and this thing happens, where you can tell they got everything they wanted. And it starts to look a little relaxed. No criticism to the shows whatsoever; these people are geniuses.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • People
  • Criticism

• There's an unexpectedly high share of workers still in agriculture, .. That's like a fault line.

  

  Edward Taylor
  • Fault
  • Workers
  • Agriculture

• Behold me waiting—waiting for the knife.... The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform, The drunken dark, the little death-in-life.... [F]ace to face with chance, I shrink a little: My hopes are strong, my will is something weak. ...I am ready But, gentlemen my porters, life is brittle: You carry Cæsar and his fortunes—steady!

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Strong
  • Dark
  • Waiting

• An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Gentleman
  • Old Men
  • Shabbiness