H.W. Charles Quotes

It is well if you go in for revenge to make it as complete as possible.("The Vengeance Of The Dead")

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid one are full of confidence".

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day

So may the New Year be a happy one to you, happy to many more whose happiness depends on you!

and beware those whoonly takeinstructions from theirGodfor they havefailed completely to live their ownlives.

for meobedience to another is the decay of self.for though every being is similareach being is differentand to herd our differencesunder one lawdegrades each self.

Cats tell me without effort all that there is to know.

I am sad for the dead and I am sad for the livingbut not for my 5 cats

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, just look at the cats, you'll feel better, because they know that everything is, just as it is.

The factories, the jails, the drunken days and nights, the hospitals have weakened and shaken me like a mouse in the mouth of a hip-cat: life.- from an Aug. 1965 letter to Jim Roman "On Cats

The cat is the beutiful devil. And here we can use the word, even without the “a.”- from a Dec. 21 1960, a letter to Sheri Martinelli"On Cats

I felt like a still live fish on ice in a butcher’s counter on Friday morning.- On Cats

DEATH COMES SLOWLY LIKE ANTS TO A FALLEN FIG

Isolation is a gift. Everything else is just a test of your endurance. You will be alone with the Gods. Your nights will flame with fire.

you've got to know when to let a woman go if you want to keep her, and if you don't want to keep her you let her go anyhow so it's always a process of letting go, one way or the other.

I was like a turd that drew flies instead of like a flower that butterflies and bees desired. I wanted to live alone, I felt best being alone, cleaner, , ,

The society of girls is a very delightful thing, Copperfield. It's not professional, but it's very delightful.

There never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death.

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

The cat is the beautiful devil.

Potential, " I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.

Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.

I have an acute sense of delicacy. Naturally I am prejudiced in favour of virtue.("The Accursed Cordonnier")

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

have you taken leave of your senses

Are not the sane and the insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming?

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.

Get out of this office! I'll have no feelings here.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

I've learned to feel good when I feel good.it's better to be driven around in a red porschethan to ownone. the luck of the fool is inviolate.

peace of mind and heartarriveswhen we accept what is:having beenborn into thisstrange lifewe must acceptthe wasted gamble of ourdaysand take some satisfaction inthe pleasure ofleaving it allbehind.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing compared to self-swindlers.

There is always somebody about to ruin your day, if not your life.

I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will

Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

I think I need a drink.''Almost everybody does only they don't know it.

So where do you go? Back to the bottle And back to a tiny room somewhere. And wait. And wait, and wait. That's all.

the lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with a red upon it that the sun had never given, and would never take away.

There are strings in the human heart which must never be sounded by another, and drinks that I make myself are those strings in mine.

I recollect it was settled by general consent that India was quite a misrepresented country, and had nothing objectionable in it, but a tiger or two, and a little heat in the warm part of the day.

Endurance is more important than truth because without endurance there can't be any truth. And truth means going to the end like you mean it. That way, death itself comes up short when it grabs

what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

from the beginning, through themiddle years and up to theend:too bad, too bad, too bad.

I am sick with caring.

Lady Dedlock is always the same exhausted deity, surrounded by worshippers, and terribly liable to be bored to death, even while presiding at her own shrine.

Don't you go to the movies?""Mostly just to eat popcorn in the dark.

I never heerd...nor read of nor see in picters, any angel in tights and gaiters...but...he's a reg'lar thoroughbred angel for all that.

it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horseor that the hummingbird is so seldomseenor that we are too senseless to goinsane.coffee. give us more of that NOTHINGcoffee.