H.W. Charles Quotes

There is nothing as boring as the truth.

When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row." "There are some real weirdos down there." "They're everywhere.

And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.

I will put on my shoes and shirt and get out of here - it'll be better for all of us.

There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe in God and live in a cubicle, play an organ and stay drunk on wine.

My part of the game is that I must live the best I can.

The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder.

I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or silly games of some sort.

my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

I write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies.

A woman has to have something on or there's nothing to take off.

The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how--usually in the bath or in sexual intercourse or asleep.

Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing

I wish somebody would just give me a couple of million dollars a year, so that I could do a play based on every little fantasy I have.

A man's venom poisons himself more than his victims.

One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the circumstances of life.

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.

Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.

Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.

To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.

Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.

Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.

It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.

Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.

Doubt is the vestibule of faith.

The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.