H.W. Charles Quotes

Love is a Dog from Hell.

But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there.

Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die.

she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind.

the history of melancholia includes all of us.

A day of minor profit or prophet led to a night of drunkenness.

I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.

I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible--- not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: trying to connect.

There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do.

Belane, are you nuts?" Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?

as the shadows assume shapes I fight the slow retreat now my once-promise dwindling dwindling now lighting new cigarettes pouring more drinks it has been a beautiful fight still is.

I was a bore and didn't know when to smile or fake it. Or rather worse, I did but didn't.

I'm writing the book to a children's musical. I got a note from the producers saying, "Can't you make it campier?" So now, I'm trying to determine the camp sensibility of the average eight year old.

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.

The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.

We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.

What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.

It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.

Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.

The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.

Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.

We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.

It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.

Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.

Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.

Fifteen hundred years ago, Constantine, who murdered his own wife and children, started the Christian religion.

The church does not draw people in; it sends them out.

The Bible's power rests upon the fact that it is the reliable, errorless, and infallible Word of God.

The problem is that relativism provides no sure foundation for a safe and orderly society.

I was deepening my understanding of what we call the cultural commission, the command to take dominion and bring righteousness to our culture.

The church's job is to equip the saints for works of service in the world.

The Bible has, amazingly- no doubt with supernatural grace-survived its critics. The harder tyrants try to eliminate it and skeptics dismiss it, the better read it becomes.

I do not believe one can experience conversion or the fullness of the Christian life apart from the church.

The Bible-banned, burned, beloved-is more widely read and more frequently attacked than any other book in history.

Where exactly do you put your hands on somebody who hurts everywhere?

I long to set foot where no man has trod before.

It is like confessing to a murder.

I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.