Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Perrault

Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels.

Victor Hugo

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

Victor Hugo

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Charles Perrault

However, Cinderella, in spite of her mean apparel, was a hundred times more handsome than her sisters, though they were always richly dressed.

Domhnall Gleeson

Conventionally handsome is not really where I'm at.

David Bailey

Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.

Henry Fielding

Handsome is that handsome does.

George Eliot

But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?

Elton John

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever.

Francesca Lia Block

He was so handsome,but he didn't look well.He reminded her of a cigarette.

John Edward

A very smooth-talking trial lawyer and handsome devil, I've got to say.

Robbie Williams

I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man-I'm the second world's most handsome man!

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

William Faulkner

Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat.

David Ricardo

Whether a bank lent one million, ten million, or a hundred millions, they would not permanently alter the market rate of interest; they would alter only the value of the money they issued.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

Isla Fisher

Women one hundred percent support each other in the movie industry.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.

Michael Kors

In the '80s, it got to the point where we'd have shows with a hundred looks. You'd want to order a pizza before it was over!

Stephen Colbert

I heard that after you throw away a 'New York Times,' it takes over a hundred years for the lies to biodegrade.

Warren Ellis

I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.

John Shedd

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.

Charles Caleb Colton

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.

Charles Caleb Colton

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

Charles Caleb Colton

We ask advice but we mean approbation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them,--for every one, sees how we dress, but none see how we live, except we choose to let them. But the truly great are, by universal suffrage, exempted from these trammels, an may live or dress as they please.

Charles Dickens

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

Charles Sturt

The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.

Don Marquis

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Brad Childress

If a daily, 'How you doing, Terrell?' is antagonistic or spiteful then I must be on the wrong planet.

Brad Childress

If a daily, 'How you doing' or a 'What's up' is antagonistic or spiteful then I must be on the wrong planet.

Dallas Willard

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

Bette Midler

I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.

Tim Murtaugh

Russ Potts is an angry, bitter, spiteful man.

Paul Mooney

Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.

Lee Matthews

The wind made it very tough to play in spite of the warm day.

Edward Lear

In spite of all their friends could say, / On a winter's morn, on a stormy day, / In a sieve they went to sea!

Chinua Achebe

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Chinua Achebe

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

Chinua Achebe

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Casey Stoner

I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it.

William Shakespeare

That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.

C. S. Lewis

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

Charlaine Harris

I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe vampires had. Thoughtful. Hungry. "That's interesting," he said. "I had a psychic once. It was incredible." "Did the psychic think so?