Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate the nearer we arrive unto it. For what do we truly know, or what can we clearly affirm, of any one of those important things upon which all our reasonings must of necessity be built--time and space, life and death, matter and mind?

Charles Caleb Colton

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

Charles Dickens

The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature.

Charles Dickens

I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.

Charles Dickens

The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.

Charles Dickens

Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog!

Bess Truman

It's very embarrassing to be put on the spot.

Aldous Huxley

It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.

Carl T. Rowan

There aren't any embarrassing questions — just embarrassing answers.

Carl T. Rowan

There are no embarrassing answers-just embarrassing questions.

Daniel Clowes

I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.

Dakota Fanning

I never skimp on TV. I watch an embarrassing amount of TV shows. I don't even know how I do it.

Kurt Vonnegut

How embarrassing it is to be human.

Helen Suzman

It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.

Jessica Lange

It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It's humiliating.

Brent Weeks

If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.

Elizabeth Bowen

nobody ever dies of an indignity.

Colin Firth

Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.

Christopher Hitchens

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I made a pact with myself that I'd rather have less money than be embarrassed.

Meg Cabot

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.

Marilynne Robinson

What an embarrassment that was, being somewhere because there was nowhere else for you to be.

Tony Snow

George Bush has become something of an embarrassment.