Charles Dickens Quotes

Not to put too fine a point upon it.

Charles Dickens

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• There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Dreams
  • Comeback
  • Second Chance

• The great object is that every man be armed.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Great
  • War
  • Man

• The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Up
  • Small
  • Team

• I was on morning TV for 10 years in Chicago.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Morning
  • Years
  • Chicago

• I'll try anything once.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Try
  • Anything
  • Once

• Being positive may be a character defect of mine.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • May
  • Character
  • Positive

• MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Me
  • Police
  • Ironic

• I like friends who are honest and loyal. They also shouldn't be afraid to be a kid. I like having fun.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Friends
  • Fun
  • Having Fun

• With 'California,' editors were reading it, and fast, and others were emailing my agent to request it. Ultimately, there were a few editors interested in the book, and it sold at auction about two weeks after the submission process started. I couldn't believe it!

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Reading

• It is a fact that no man improves much after the age of 60 and after 65, most suffer a really alarming decline. I could give some examples, but at the advice of my publisher will refrain from doing so.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Age
  • Advice

• Follow a shadow, it still flies you; Seem to fly it, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • She
  • Alone
  • Fly

• A moment or an eternity-did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Life
  • She
  • Smile

• It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Great
  • Real

• Lies are as important as truth, for without lies, the truth is worthless.

  

  Ben Elton
  • Important
  • Truth
  • Lies

• Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Age

• I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Wish

• The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

  

  Arnold J. Toynbee
  • Today
  • Survival

• Writing is an addiction more powerful than alcohol, than nicotine, than crack. I could not conceive of not writing.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Writing
  • Powerful
  • Alcohol

• It's really hard to sell a script, and it's even harder to get a movie made. It just almost never happens.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Movie

• So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Guilt
  • Jealousy
  • Memorable

• When you have a cute outfit on and your makeup looks amazing, the first thing people comment on is your image. When you don't wear makeup, you hear things like, 'Oh wow, you look tired,' or, 'You're so brave for not wearing makeup!'

  

  Colbie Caillat
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Tired

• That's what I'm always searching for - finding the balance between not caring so much to where I put all this pressure on myself. But still caring enough to where it pushes me to work exactly how I've been working so far.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Work
  • Balance
  • Caring

• I'm single right now and I've chosen to be single because I don't have the time to get to know anybody. So it's okay not to have sex, it's okay to get to know people. I'm celibate, celibacy's fine.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Time
  • Single

• Not to put too fine a point upon it.

  

  Charles Dickens