Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

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

"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..."

Charles Dickens

"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."

Charles Caleb Colton

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

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

Charles Caleb Colton

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.

Byron Katie

Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They're innocent. They're not personal.

Charlotte Lennox

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

Elizabeth I

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

Adolph Gottlieb

If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge , not innocence.

Albert Camus

The innocent is the person who explains nothing

Christopher Walken

Sometimes a certain innocence is good, but not about yourself.

Alice Thomas Ellis

Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

Anthony Anderson

Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.

Anthony Anderson

More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.

Edwin Meese

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

Bertolt Brecht

The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.

Benjamin Franklin

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

Michael Paranzino

Since 1999 we've had 100,000 innocent people murdered in America. But nobody is planning on commemorating all those people killed.

Bill Hamilton

This proposal would punish people who are innocent of any wrongdoing.

Anna Faris

She's still the same old simple Cindy. She's just as innocent and naive as ever, just trying to save the world again.

Rick Watson

We're kind of in the position that everybody's innocent until proven guilty.

Steven Cohen

We don't have little Miss Innocent who was sprayed for no reason at all.

Agatha Christie

But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.