Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out...

Charles Caleb Colton

A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it; since nothing is so easy as to fancy a very beautiful woman extremely witty.

Charles Dickens

How beautiful you are! You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. I don't ask you for your love; give me yourself and your hatred; give me yourself and that pretty rage; give me yourself and that enchanting scorn; it will be enough for me.

Charles Dickens

And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.

Charles Dickens

... Natural affections and instincts, my dear sir, are the most beautiful of the Almighty's works, but like other beautiful works of His, they must be reared and fostered, or it is as natural that they should be wholly obscured, and that new feelings should usurp their place, as it is that the sweetest productions of the earth, left untended, should be choked with weeds and briers.

Charles Dickens

She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.

Charles Dickens

... when he saw her sitting there all alone, so young, and good, and beautiful, and kind to him; and heard her thrilling voice, so natural and sweet, and such a golden link between him and all his life's love and happiness, rising out of the silence; he turned his face away, and hid his tears.

Charles Dickens

I don't remember forms or faces now, but I know the girl was beautiful. I know she was; for in the bright moonlight nights, when I start from my sleep, and all is quiet about me, I see, standing still and motionless in one corner of this cell, a slight and wasted figure with long black hair, which streaming down her back, stirs with no earthly wind, and eyes that fix their gaze on me, and never wink or close...

Ashwin Sanghi

The cleanest book on a dusty bookshelf is usually a dirty one.

Brentson Buckner

Yeah, everybody from Iowa's a pig farmer. We just laugh about it. Because if you look at him and look at his dad, they're probably two of the cleanest pig farmers I've ever seen in my life.

Brentson Buckner

Yeah, everybody from Iowa's a pig farmer, ... We just laugh about it. Because if you look at him and look at his dad, they're probably two of the cleanest pig farmers I've ever seen in my life.

Stephanie Stilson

But we're looking much closer. My guys are telling me it might be the cleanest vehicle we've ever gotten back.

Langdon Neal

The good news is I can tell you we have the cleanest rolls we ever had.

Jose Vicente

The opposition says this election isn't clean. It's the cleanest in Venezuela's history, but they have interests opposed to the National Electoral Council,

Jack Roush

Looking back, this is the cleanest we've ever run at Richmond.

Dave Fogarty

We have the cleanest fuel in the country here.

Dave Maguire

It wasn't the cleanest game we've played. They're really excited, so I think they may have been overlooking this game a little.

Sam Perlozzo

When you talked about the Orioles, you talked about Elrod. Elrod Hendricks was one of the finest men I have ever met.

Bertolt Brecht

The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.

Bertolt Brecht

The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Some of our finest work comes through service to others.

Steve Young

We had some of the finest musicians in Nashville contributing to this album.

Johnny Grant

We have lost one of the finest gentlemen this industry ever knew,

Louise Nurding

The gold iridescent 'Naked' outfit is perhaps not my finest moment.

John Burnside

My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.

Eileen collins

The people that I have worked with have just been superb, just the finest professionals, people who truly love the space program.

George Bernard Shaw

I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

Alan Grayson

Ladies and gentlemen, we understand the big picture after three weeks of testimony. The big picture is greed.

William Brownfield

Ladies and gentlemen, how can I get any sleep with so many conspiracies and plots? ... The truth is there are many things in this world that have nothing to do with the United States.

William Brownfield

Ladies and gentlemen, How am I going to sleep with so many conspiracies and plots?

James Baker

Ladies and gentlemen, at some point -- at some point -- there must be closure,

Mary Green

We want you to know, ladies and gentlemen, he did it out of greed, to get stuff to sell for a little pocket change. You're going to hear the whole history of Joe Michael Luna.

E. P. Thompson

It is not unknown for gentlemen to come in and purchase two of the same items.

Garry Houston

True gentlemen. I've had a very special time.

Dave Murphy

We have a hard time keeping up with these older gentlemen.

Kacey Musgraves

Loretta Lynn was one of those ladies a long time ago that opened a lot of doors and paved the way for a lot of ballsy singer-songwriters who weren't just cute.

Neil Innes

Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn.

John Kasich

I want to tell you ladies and gentlemen, the actions that we took were not always easy. The actions that we took were not always popular. But when you get yourself in public office, you must lead, you must do what's necessary.

William Ford

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies

Nick Carter

What it is that he has that makes the ladies do what they just did?

Don Hays

Ladies and Gentlemen, the wall-of-worry is being rebuilt strong and wide,

Dion Custis

(He) is not a cold-blooded murderer, ladies and gentlemen, he reacted. There was no thought process.

Arthur Baer

The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness

Iris Apfel

Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.