Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

Charles Dickens

People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are

Charles Dickens

The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous.

Charles Dickens

"I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.

Charles Dickens

Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead.

Charles Dickens

[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.

Charles Spurgeon

He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom.

Charles Spurgeon

When we reach the hilltops of heaven, and look back upon all the way whereby the Lord our God hath led us, how shall we praise Him who, before the eternal throne, undid the mischief which Satan was doing upon earth. How shall we thank Him because He never held His peace, but day and night pointed to the wounds upon His hands, and carried our names upon His breastplate!

Alan Jay Lerner

I could have danced all night!

Charles Caleb Colton

Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.

Charles Stanley

One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.

Charles Spurgeon

Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?

William Shakespeare

Temptation: the fiend at my elbow.

Earl Wilson

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

Bertolt Brecht

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

Bertolt Brecht

Temptation to behave is terrible.

Agnes Repplier

Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

Bob Parsons

The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.

Carolina Herrera

You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.

Karen Morley

It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.

Amy Lowell

I shall go Up and down In my gown. Gorgeously arrayed, Boned and stayed.

Carly Rager

We have two private lines that knock off $5,000 wedding gowns for $500.

Heinrich Heine

With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe.

Carly Rager

An old-fashioned style is really big ? the gowns look like something their grandmother would have worn. They want it to be classic, timeless.

Michelle Lombardo

You put your heart and soul into being on the road with these gowns, ... These gowns are my babies.

Johann Rupert

I don't want to start producing dressing gowns and cuff links with the Purdey name stamped on them. Making Purdey the leading gunmaker is our priority. Once we have succeeded in doing that, then we might look at some accessories, but it is a long haul.

Katharine Whitehorn

There's comfort to an awful old dressing-gown a pretty peignoir is powerless to provide, and aging bra elastic, is, I suspect, as near to liberation as most women ever get.