Charles Dickens Quotes

If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!' your seventy-eight years would be seventy-eight heavy curses; would they not?

Charles Dickens

• Truth
• Respect
• Remembered
• Attachment
• Human Creature

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• As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Important
  • American
  • Positive

• Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Sad

• It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Fast
  • Languages
  • Pick

• We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Heroes
  • Conflicts
  • Tale

• Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • People
  • Great
  • Science

• To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Happiness
  • Child
  • Find

• I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.

  

  Kate Greenaway
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Slavery
  • Medical

• I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.

  

  Tamera Mowry
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Person

• I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Me
  • Forever
  • Rap

• Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Up
  • Job
  • Dream

• This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.

  

  Fat Joe
  • World
  • Kids
  • Me

• I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Time
  • Great
  • Believe

• Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Man
  • Taken
  • Attitude

• The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Situation
  • Fever

• The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Problem
  • Photography
  • Turn

• It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Student

• All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
  • Important
  • Chance

• I think that with the proliferation of writing programs, people tend to forget that you also have to get used to working alone, and you have to be your own support.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • People
  • Writing
  • Support

• I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Around
  • Lived
  • Corner

• The kitchen oven is reliable, but it's made us lazy.

  

  Jamie Oliver
  • Kitchen
  • Lazy

• "I believe it" announced Tafe complacently. "That my dear " said Ambrose "is because you grew up in a rough and violent world here just managing to live from day to day is easily considered a miracle. You are able to accept the truth no matter how astonishing its guise. Whereas our friend Hocker here is steeped in the overweening rationalism of his time and could mentally dismiss a mastodon in front of him if it happened to be wearing the wrong school tie

  

  K. W. Jeter
  • World
  • Truth
  • Miracle

• I will never apologize for being me, speaking the truth & giving all of me to the world. I will never apologize for being real & how I feel.

  

  Behdad Sami
  • Truth
  • I Feel
  • Apologize

• If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!' your seventy-eight years would be seventy-eight heavy curses; would they not?

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Truth
  • Respect
  • Remembered