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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.
metaphor insight supreme
Any supreme insight is a metaphor. Charles Henry Parkhurst
metaphor masters
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. Aristotle
metaphor halfway commonplace
Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.
metaphor
The metaphors exist for the stories. Kurt Busiek
metaphor transitory
All that is transitory is but a metaphor. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
metaphor strain
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. Florence King
metaphor
The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately. Gaston Bachelard
metaphor myth walt
Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth. Jeff Smith
metaphor red state
Branson is a metaphor for red state America, Robert Schmuhl