H.W. Charles Quotes

The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that infants at a very early age redden from passion.

Many kinds of monkeys have a strong taste for tea, coffee and spirituous liqueurs.

The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress.

About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine known gradations, my reason tells me I ought to conquer the cold shudder.

...conscience looks backwards and judges past actions, inducing that kind of dissatisfaction, which if weak we call regret, and if severe remorse.

It is better to have a bad method than to have none.

Long live Montreal, Long live Quebec! Long live Free Quebec!

One does not arrest Voltaire.

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

I am not bad, thank you. But don't worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.

One cannot govern with 'buts'.

These people really aim very badly.

All my life I have had a certain idea of France.

The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into; that people have to earn our respect and trust, not have it handed to them simply because of genetics.

Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.

It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.

Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee.

Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.

Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman.

May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.

Keep up appearances whatever you do.

A good thing can't be cruel.

But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.

Christmas may not bring a single thing; still, it gives me a song to sing.

Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you.

You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.

My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention

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

And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through which it had since groped, and knew of nothing beyond the Marshalsea.

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!

Them which is of other naturs thinks different.

Meow says the cat ,quack says the duck , Bow wow wow says the dog ! Grrrr!

Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.

She writhes under her life. A woman more angry, passionate, reckless, and revengeful never lived.

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

At some point, if you're changing a really deep-seated behavior, you're going to have a moment of weakness.

We've been to the Moon nine times. Why would we fake it nine times, if we faked it?

I'm proud to be an American, I'll tell you. What a program and what a place and what an experience.

In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and make seven copies of everything.

People who recognize that money won't buy happiness are still willing to see if credit cards will do the trick.

Nothing grieves a child more than to study the wrong lesson and learn something he wasn't suppose to.

I feel there should be blacks in every Party.