Quotes About Charles

Clap an extinguisher on your irony, if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

Simultaneously, an Auburn banker named Charles P. Wood prepared a narrative of Tubman's war service, with an appendix of available documentation. Copies are still on file at the National Archives.

Kind of bloodthirsty, don't you think, Charles? said John. I'm an editor, said Charles. I have to make decisions like that all the time.

Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise.

I have only met Prince Charles once, when he was very charming and easy to chat to. I have always had a soft spot for him, and I admire our constitutional monarchy, but Charles often comes across as eccentric, and he has a mixed press.

The first movie I worked was called 'The Spirit of St. Louis.' It was the story of Charles Lindberg's life.

The vices of some men are magnificent.

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.

A lot of people didn't know I was doing Broadway. They thought I was one of those guys who was famous for being famous. I was the one who sat next to Charles Nelson Reilly and said funny things.

King Charles dispatched a follow-up expedition to the Spice Islands only six years after Magellan's departure from Spain.

Castile's regent, Cardinal Ximenes de Cisneiros, had just died on his way to assist the inexperienced King Charles

Three hundred years later, Charles Darwin encountered a canoe bearing tribal members

Leonor, the twenty-year-old sister of King Charles of Spain.

December" Here lies my lament Deep beneath the cold, hard ground Where the lilacs bloom (2007)

My problem with democracy is that it doesn't exist. I'm not opposed to it. And I'm not opposed to the tooth fairy either.

When the furnace was completed, we figured it would require several days to dry, so as to be fit for use, and during this time I concluded to visit Killisnoo and buy a few luxuries as well as a bottle of Carter's Little Liver Pills, as I pretended to need some medicine.

Mr. Cochran started me to work on certain mining men of the camp to gain certain information for the benefit of him and his associates. My name here was Chas. T. Lloyd. I remained over a month and did the work successfully.

When darkness came Sergeant

Mighty Endeavor: American Armed Forces in the European Theater

A heaping tablespoon of ground-up zeolite had the surface area of a football field.

Anytime a fan touches you, you have the right to beat the hell out of him.

Literature is not an instruction manual. For obvious reasons, this is rarely noted in fiction.