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character eye names
If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face. Charles Dickens
character interesting long
"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."
character boys thinking
"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."
character half tongue
Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well. Charles Caleb Colton
character abuse criticism
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question.
character men support
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
character suffering peculiar
Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.
character water taste
Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.
character long aging
Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.
embarrassing spots
It's very embarrassing to be put on the spot. Bess Truman
embarrassing seems kinder
It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder. Aldous Huxley
embarrassing-questions answers embarrassing
There aren't any embarrassing questions — just embarrassing answers. Carl T. Rowan
embarrassing-questions justice answers
There are no embarrassing answers-just embarrassing questions.
embarrassing made
I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing. Daniel Clowes
embarrassing
I never skimp on TV. I watch an embarrassing amount of TV shows. I don't even know how I do it. Dakota Fanning
embarrassing humans
How embarrassing it is to be human. Kurt Vonnegut
embarrassing-questions answers embarrassing
It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing. Helen Suzman
embarrassing humiliating
It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It's humiliating. Jessica Lange
embarrassment muscles huge
If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge. Brent Weeks
embarrassment dies indignity
nobody ever dies of an indignity. Elizabeth Bowen
embarrassment states englishmen
Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment. Colin Firth
embarrassment vulgar producers
As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist. Christopher Hitchens
embarrassment involved
One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment. Friedrich Nietzsche
embarrassment made embarrassed
I made a pact with myself that I'd rather have less money than be embarrassed. Gwyneth Paltrow
embarrassment remembered died
But then I remembered something Grandmere had once assured me of: No one has ever died of embarrassment-never, not once in the whole history of time. Meg Cabot
embarrassment
What an embarrassment that was, being somewhere because there was nowhere else for you to be. Marilynne Robinson
embarrassment
George Bush has become something of an embarrassment. Tony Snow