Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of envy, notwithstanding their number, ought not to wound our virtue by reason of their insignificance.

Charles Dickens

the sight of me is good for sore eyes

Charles Dickens

I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music.

Charles Dickens

But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless.

Charles Dickens

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

Charles Dickens

An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror.

Charles Dickens

With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing.

Charles Dickens

She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.

Charles Dickens

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.

Demi Moore

You don't come into this life wanting to be anything other than happy.

Elizabeth Edwards

I have a lot that I intend to do in this life.

Ahmet Ertegun

It is a great life, this life of music,

Bruce Lee

You will never get any more out of this life than you expect.

Andrew Vachss

If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Live it well and this life can be grand.

Norman Vincent Peale

Nothing of great value in this life comes easily.

Henrik Ibsen

You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.

Blaise Pascal

Symmetry is what we see at a glance.

Antoine Rivarol

Women read each other at a single glance.

Jean Cocteau

Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.

Robert Frost

The sidelong glance is what you depend on.