Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.

Charles Dickens

All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.

Charles Dickens

He would make a lovely corpse.

Charles Dickens

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

Charles Dickens

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Charles Dickens

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Charles Dickens

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave

Charles Caleb Colton

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

Zia McCabe

She's very well-mannered. She's getting used to the travelling now. This is her in a grumpy mood.

Joe Vitt

Don't worry about me, I'm fine. We looked like grumpy old men. I tell you, it was a sore sight.

Nicholas Hoult

I can be a bit grumpy. Im full of angst, and hormones.

Nick Frost

I don't describe myself as a sociable person now. I can be quite... you know... grumpy? Is that a word? I guess I can be a bit grumpy.

Penelope Wilton

It's true, I've become one of those grumpy older women.

Anderson Cooper

I'm probably the oldest 38-year-old I know - sort of a grumpy old man.

Lincoln Castellanos

We know that he isn't just a grumpy old guy who doesn't want to hang out and talk to kids.

Chen Guangcheng

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

Heinrich Heine

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

Hans Christian Andersen

Don't ask me how I am! I understand nothing more!

Ozzy Osbourne

Don't ask me, I don't know

P. L. Travers

You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.

John Tortorella

Ask me a question. Don't say talk about it, ask me a question. I'm not going to talk about it if it isn't a question.

Richard Pryor

If you ask me about women's lib, I say I don't even know what that is.

Tom Felton

I'm not one generally to do that stuff anyway, and they didn't even ask me whether I'd seen the show [The Flash]. They didn't tell me anything about what I was going to play, they just inferred that there was going to be a lot of meat to sink my teeth into.