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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.
different-faces government political
What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition. Learned Hand
different-faces race envy
Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd William Blake
different-faces race born
O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?
different-faces faces different
Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All Ralph Waldo Emerson
comedy desperate deep-inside
Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy. David Suchet
comedy kind
American comedies about Asians have never been funny to me. That always kind of pissed me off. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
comedy attorney wanted
I liked comedy, but didn't know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney. Aisha Tyler
comedy
I like grown up comedy.
comedy feels comfortable
I feel more comfortable in comedy. Bob Newhart
comedy audience one-thing
The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them. Bernie Mac
comedy has-beens
Comedy has been so good to me.
comedy
Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.
comedy well-known wells
I wanted to be less well-known in comedy. Eddie Izzard