Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.

Charles Caleb Colton

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.

Charles Dickens

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.

Charles Dickens

If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.

Charles Dickens

Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.

A. N. Wilson

I wanted passionately to be a priest.

Hilaire Belloc

I always like to associate with a lot of priests because it makes me understand anti-clerical things so well.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

George Carlin

Once the high priests and the traders took over, we were lost as a species.

Glenn Tipton

Back in 1994 there was no Judas Priest.

John Milton

New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.

Johnny Vegas

Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!

Carl Lewis

Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.

Christiane Amanpour

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

Jesse Eisenberg

My hope is to never act again and just do press.

Jesse Eisenberg

I purposefully isolate myself from anything that has to do with any press. I don't read any press about myself.

Michael Hutchence

The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping

Max Clifford

Talk to the press and we'll bury you.

Sela Ward

Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.

Vanna White

Any press is good press.

Topher Grace

I don't talk about my personal life with the press.