Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.

Charles Caleb Colton

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.

Charles Caleb Colton

A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.

Charles Dickens

I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction of me. You don't know what my state of mind towards you is. You don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it.

Charles Dickens

"As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."

Charles Dickens

Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?

Bode Miller

I like to keep my private life private for the most part.

Brigitte Bardot

My private life became public.

Danny Kaye

I can't say what Danny Kaye is like in private life. There are too many of them.

Amber Heard

I've always been a private person, and I've always valued my private life.

Logan Mankins

I like to keep most of my private life private.

Novak Djokovic

I've had my ups and downs in my private life.

Heather Matarazzo

You have your private life and you have your public life, and just don’t let them interfere.

Enya

I am not reclusive. I just have a private life.

Harrison Ford

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.