Quotes About Charles

On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.

Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions.

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

Tastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt?

it has been observed that Londoners became more extravagant in the presence of Charles Dickens, so that they might appear more Dickensian, so

What Charles did to the people of Scotland—was that the 'thing' that had to happen? Or was it 'meant' to happen as it did, and Charles's real purpose was to be what he is now—a figurehead, an icon? Without him, would Scotland have endured two hundred years of union with England, and still—still"—she waved a hand at the sprawling letters overhead—"have kept its own identity?

So Finney typical of Charles, to do such damage.

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. It was first published in 1841 by Charles Mackay.

Sorry to disappoint you," said Charles. "I had thought about inviting a bunch of seven-year-olds to dinner but then I remembered that tonight was really rather important and our future happiness might depend on the outcome." "So he's not coming?" I said, just to clarify. "No," said Charles. "He's not.

Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did it without any assistance from the other two.

There was a grand piano, too, and Charles was playing, a glass of whiskey on the seat beside him. He was a little drunk; the Chopin was slurred and fluid, the notes melting sleepily into one another. A breeze stirred the heavy, moth-eaten velvet curtains, ruffling his hair.

P.P.S. AND YOU CAN TALK. "Just say the word." JUST SAY THE WORD? What kind of expression is that? WHAT WORD WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO SAY ANYWAY? MORON? Letter from Emily to Charles.

I think that nonexistent mythological creature just broke some of your toes," Jack said. Oh, shut up," said Charles

You're a very odd man," said Bert. "I get that more often than you'd think," replied Charles.

As Snoopy, that great contemporary philosopher, once said, "There's nothing like a little physical pain to keep your mind off your emotional problems." Charles M. Schulz, the creator of Peanuts, is clearly a perceptive man.

Charles gave his hat to Mary, set his lapels, wished he were dead, then went down the hall and into his ordeal.

Laziness, I am afraid, was Charles's distinguishing trait.

Soccer' is not an Americanism. It's short for 'Association Football' and was popularised by Charles Wreford-Brown, captain of the English national team 1894–5.

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

His name was apparently Charles Penrose and the record was called The Adventures of the Laughing Policeman.

Charles the Bald, however, insisted that his daughter should receive the full royal honours.

Think you've got knocker fever. Come in to the inn tonight and get it cured up." "Maybe that's it," said Adam. "But I never took much satisfaction in a whore." "It's all the same," Charles said. "You shut your eyes and you can't tell the difference.

for, I am not Covetous, but as Ambitious as ever any of my Sex was, is, or can be; which is the cause, That though I cannot be Henry the Fifth, or Charles the Second; yet, I will endeavour to be, Margaret the First: and, though I have neither Power, Time nor Occasion, to be a great Conqueror, like Alexander, or Cesar; yet, rather than not be Mistress of a World, since Fortune and the Fates would give me none, I have made One of my own.

The rain it raineth on the just       And also on the unjust fella;       But chiefly on the just, because       The unjust steals the just's umbrella. —Charles, Baron Bowen