H.W. Charles Quotes

Please, sir, I want some more.

Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up...

When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.

Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.

Walk and be Happy, Walk and be Healthy.

Then I'm sorry to say, I've eat your pie.

It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings.

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.

There wasn't room to swing a cat there.

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

Come in, -- come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before!

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that had been heated in a furnace, and were growing cold.

"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..."

Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.

Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever floored.

United metropolitan improved hot muffin and crumpet baking and punctual delivery company.

The more especially, as in my juvenile frankness, I took some credit to myself for being so confidential and felt that I was quite the patron of my two respectful entertainers.

Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.

Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.

The plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to put his foot where he cannot see the ground.

Marley was dead: to begin with.

Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell.

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden... name things as I find them.

The best agencies understood the importance of routines. The worst agencies were headed by people who never thought about it, and then wondered why no one followed their orders.

Roger. We've got you, we're go on that alarm.

That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.

Free advice is often overpriced.

Nobody is sicker than the man who is sick on his day off.

Remote Sensing is defined as the acquisition of information about an object without being in physical contact with it.

The refuge from pessimism is the good men and women at any time existing in the world, -they keep faith and happiness alive.

I don't believe in welfare.

Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain.

It is not the victory that makes the joy of noble hearts; but the combat.

Without a Sabbath, no worship; without worship, no religion; and without religion, no permanent freedom.

One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.

Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt.

I suspect people would be in for a real shock if they knew the depths of his [Obama's] historical ignorance.

Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.

Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.

I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on how far back your memory extends.

Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt forever.

That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on