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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.
said
Least said, soonest mended
said
Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do. David Mitchell
said staring
I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me... Bo Burnham
said feels wells
I feel 30.[Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do. David Hockney
said meadows grants
Cary Grant, said, 'I heard you were on the lot and I just had to meet you. Audrey Meadows
said bargains
I said we are Ghodratis and there's nothing that Ghodratis like more than a bargain. Aasif Mandvi
said helpless
I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless. Arthur Golden
said
I always said what I thought and I didn't hold anything back. Billy Carter
said last-words
I've said all that I've had to say. Bill Hicks
has-beens ifs know-how
We know how God would act if he were in our place - he has been in our place. Aiden Wilson Tozer
has-beens
Everything about my politics has been about the future David Miliband
has-beens
Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been. Kurt Vonnegut
has-beens
Everyone I've worked with has been good. You learn from the good, what's good, and you learn from the bad what not to do. Ben Vereen
has-beens denied
Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free Aung San Suu Kyi
has-beens
What has been is no more. Change has come. Dean Koontz
has-beens happened could-have-been
What happened to you could have been worse - it could have happened to me. Ashleigh Brilliant
has-beens
Any more would have been less. Artie Shaw
has-beens
Everything has been something before. Alexander McCall Smith