Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.

Charles Dickens

To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeable too - it really was - to see him cut it off so smooth and juicy. There was nothing savage in the act, although the knife was large and keen; it was a piece of art, high art; there was delicacy of touch, clearness of tone, skilful handling of the subject, fine shading. It was the triumph of mind over matter; quite.

Charles Caleb Colton

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.

Charles Dickens

Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.

Charles Spurgeon

Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that thou didst once love, and love the things that thou didst once hate; if thou hast really repented; if there be a thorough change of mind in thee; if thou be born again, then hast thou reason to rejoice: but if there be no vital change, no inward godliness; if there be no love to God, no prayer, no work of the Holy Spirit, then thy saying "I am saved" is but thine own assertion, and it may delude, but it will not deliver thee.

Charles Spurgeon

Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.

Charles Spurgeon

Come boldly, 'O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, thou art greatly beloved.

Alanis Morissette

I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it's my duty to be as honest as possible in my art.

Chris Cleave

This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married.

Aimee Bender

My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.

Edith Sitwell

The poet is the complete lover of mankind.

Edith Wharton

I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer.

Axl Rose

Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.

Unknown

To our wives and lovers - may they never meet!

Alexandre Dumas

Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.

Charles Bukowski

Find what you love and let it kill you. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.

Aristotle

Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

Chinua Achebe

Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand.

Caleb Cushing

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.

C. L. R. James

Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave.

Daymond John

Money is a great slave but a horrible master.

David Brooks

Freedom without structure is its own slavery.

Beau Willimon

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

Alan Keyes

In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves.

Charles Guggenheim

There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it.