Others Quotes, page 17

“My hair stands on end at the cost and charges of these boys. Why was I ever a father! Why was my father ever a father!”

“Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death — the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!”

“Credit is a system whereby a person who cannot pay gets another person who cannot pay to guarantee that he can pay.”

“I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.”

“In the little world in which children have their existence, whoever brings them up finds nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.”

“They are man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree; but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.”

“Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.”

“For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down.”

“The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.”

“The civility which money will purchase is rarely extended to those who have none.”

“It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.”

“To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.”

“When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.”

“Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.”

“Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.”

“If the parks be 'the lungs of London,' we wonder what Greenwich Fair is — a periodical breaking out, we suppose — a sort of spring rash.”

“I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything.”

“You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to facts, sir.”

“Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism are all very good words for the lips.”