H.W. Charles Quotes

Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.

The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery.

From that day to this that religion has been the greatest curse that ever afflicted the earth.

This son taught that any man who did not believe that piece of ignorance and priestly lying would go to hell and burn eternally in fire and brimstone.

All hunt for fame, but most mistake the way.

Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.

England, a happy land we know, Where follies naturally grow, Where without culture they arise, And tow'r above the common size.

The laws I love; the lawyers I suspect.

Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.

Genius is of no country; her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.

Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.

Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.

The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.

Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about that thing himself.

Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.

Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.

If honor calls, where'er she points the way The sons of honor follow, and obey.

Within the brain's most secret cells, A certain lord chief justice dwells, Of sov'reign power, whom one and all, With common voice we reason call.

One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that.

Few nations match our rich resource of literature.

But it doesn't stop at school. We can all enjoy books throughout our lives - as I certainly continue to do.

I am not in any way opposed to medieval studies (or for that matter Latin).

Part of the problem is that he lacks confidence. He is nervous.

I don't mind there being some medievalists around for ornamental purposes, but there is no reason for the State to pay for them.

Peace talk when war is impending is hazardous for the talker, and in war time it is criminal. War talk in peace time, which is infinitely more wicked, runs no risk at all.

I believe citizens are beginning to realize that their birthright, a healthy ecosystem, has been stolen, and they want it back.

The church is the only institution supernaturally endowed by God. It is the one institution of which Jesus promised that the gates of hell will not prevail against it.

Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena.

No! no arresting the vast wheel of time, That round and round still turns with onward might, Stern, dragging thousands to the dreaded night Of an unknown hereafter.

I'm not good with bullies and zealots.

Really, I think among the many mistakes I've made over my life, one of them was caring so much about the short story.

Behind each piece, animating every attempt, is the echo of a precarious faith, that we are more intimately bound to one another by our kindred doubts than our brave conclusions.

I have lots of fiction in the drawer, but the essays I mostly kick out into the world, ready or not. Fiction incubates differently, I suppose.

Power is always a corrupting influence. In this mythical time - let's call it medieval, feudal - people in power are dictatorial and don't want their positions of power to be threatened.

When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.

By the margin of fair Zurich's waters Dwelt a youth, whose fond heart, night and day, For the fairest of fair Zurich's daughters In a dream of love melted away.

If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay.

We get a successful television series or something, and next season they give you less time and less money, which is something I've never really understood. That doesn't happen with Game of Thrones.

Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.

Much truth is spoken, that more may be concealed.

Perjury is often bold and open. It is truth that is shamefaced - as, indeed, in many cases is no more than decent.

The law of England is a very strange one; it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.

The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank.

Life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing.

The man who walks with Henslow.

I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please.

I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts.

Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely.

Sympathy will have been increased through natural selection