Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate the nearer we arrive unto it. For what do we truly know, or what can we clearly affirm, of any one of those important things upon which all our reasonings must of necessity be built--time and space, life and death, matter and mind?

Charles Caleb Colton

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

Charles Dickens

The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature.

Charles Dickens

I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.

Charles Dickens

The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.

Charles Dickens

Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog!

Denzel Washington

I just do what I feel and what I like. I don't necessarily censor or feel an obligation to have a particular moral standard - I'm willing to wallow in the mud, if necessary. It appears as if there seems to be a consistency in result, but maybe that has as much to do with the roles I choose as it does with how I play them. I do what pleases me.

Charlotte Bronte

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

Ricky Gervais

I've never done anything for the common consensus. I do things to please me. If you are happy with something yourself, you become bulletproof.

Brigitte Bardot

The world today doesn't please me.

Elie Wiesel

I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.

America Ferrera

When you finish a series like 'Ugly Betty,' there are so many voices around you telling you what you should be doing next and what would be good for your future, sometimes you can't hear yourself. I've gotten pretty good at tuning everyone else out. Now it's just me; what pleases me creatively.

Dante Alighieri

Doubting pleases me no less than knowing

Anthony Bourdain

I'd learned something... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me... and others. This was valuable information.

Bjork

What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.

Chris Christie

We cannot reward incompetence and deceit. We need to demand more than what Hillary Clinton offers for America.

Benjamin Franklin

None are deceived but they that confide.

Athanasius

For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit.

Bible Bible

Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.

Noam Chomsky

The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.

Aristophanes

Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.

Aeschylus

God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

Hitopadesa Hitopadesa

The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.

Edward Coke

Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.