Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Charles Dickens

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

Charles Dickens

I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

Charles Caleb Colton

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Charles Caleb Colton

The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

Charles Dickens

We are so very 'umble.

Andrew Mason

Globally local commerce is a $12 to $14 trillion market. If we get 10 percent of that, we'll be very happy.

Dylan Moran

You're not going to learn anything if you're not prepared to go flat, so I'm very happy to go flat.

Anne Enright

I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.

Bill Burr

Actually they [ Netflix] were telling us to push it further and I've never gotten a nod like that from anybody in the industry, so it's been awesome to work with them. I'm very happy where we're at.

Jilly Cooper

I'm basically a very happy person and I don't have to be anybody else.

Esther Hicks

I'm going to be very happy, and then do everything I have time to do after that.

Elton John

I'm very relaxed. I'm very happy with my personal life.

Frances Bean Cobain

I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.

Joan Collins

I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.

Abraham Lincoln

I am a moderate walker, however I never stroll back.