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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.
class two people
Mr Jarndyce, and prevented his going any farther, when he had remarked that there were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all.
class words-of-wisdom success-of-others
The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.
class safety age
Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class.
class citizens degradation
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.
class homicide one-thing
When one thing takes another away, what do we call that?” she asked my class. “Homicide!” I called out Chris Colfer
class two people
There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece. Dave Barry
class people behaviour
Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes. Cesare Pavese
class black why-not
Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior? Carter G. Woodson
class white benefits
I regard affirmative action as pernicious-a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women. Camille Paglia
quirky persons edgy
I'm not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies. Diablo Cody
quirky computer programming
C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success. Dennis Ritchie
quirky film
'Aiyyaa' is a very quirky film. Anurag Kashyap
quirky scripts annoying
Quite often, I'll be sent a script for a movie. And I find that I like it, so I say I'll do it. But then they rewrite it for me. They make it quirky. Odd. I find that rather annoying. I call it Walkenising. Christopher Walken
quirky stalking international-business
International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky. Alexander McCall Smith
quirky rating cult
It was more of their quirky show. It was more like a cult show. The ratings weren't really that high. Amy Sedaris
quirky pathways evolution
The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable. Stephen Jay Gould
quirky dolls places-ive-been
I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls. Emma Watson
quirky scripts normal
I'm not really that keen on mainstream; I'm not interested in doing the normal films. I do tend to go for the quirky, different scripts. Gina Bellman