Charles Nodier Quotes

Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods. ~ Charles Nodier

After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public the innocent richness of thought which we have acquired by the culture of letters. ~ Charles Nodier

A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write. ~ Charles Nodier

After owning books, almost the next best thing is talking about them. ~ Charles Nodier

Our years, our debts, and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine. ~ Charles Nodier

If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, indeed, its reward. I have tasted a little of everything, and I have truly never enjoyed anything more. ~ Charles Nodier

To believe everything is to be an imbecile.
To deny everything is to be a fool. ~ Charles Nodier

There is something marvelously soft in the study of nature which attaches a name to every being, a thought to every name, affection and memories to every thought. ~ Charles Nodier

Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY) ~ John Clute

The winter will be long and bleak. Nature has a dismal aspect. ~ Charles Nodier

The power to charm the female has sometimes been more important than the power to conquer other males in battle. LAWS ~ Charles Darwin

The good parts of our relationship felt like a rat walking around and gnawing at the inside of my stomach. ~ Charles Bukowski

If you will not have death unto sin, you shall have sin unto death. There is no alternative. If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, it will slay you. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

This is the definition of the infinite: it is something that can stay the same size even when you subtract from it. ~ Charles Seife

Who would ever want to read a novel about a punk and a drunk! Everybody knew a couple or a dozen; they were not to be taken seriously; nuisances and trouble-makers, nothing more; like queers and fairies, people were bell-sick of them; whatever ailed them, that was their funeral; who cared? - life presented a thousand things more important to be written about than misfits and failures. ~ Charles Jackson

Silence is sometimes the severest criticism. ~ Charles Buxton

[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration of my views of those principles, and as evidence strengthening the system necessarily arising out of the admission of such principles, which ... are neither more nor less than that no causes whatever have from the earliest time to which we can look back, to the present, ever acted, but those now acting; and that they never acted with different degrees of energy from that which they now exert. ~ Charles Lyell

It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet. ~ Charles Kuralt

Your health is probably good if you have just been reinstantiated, and is likely to remain good for some time. Most diseases are curable, and in event of an incurable ailment or injury, a new body may be provided
for a fee. (In the event of your murder, you will be furnished with a new body at the expense of your killer.) ~ Charles Stross

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education. ~ Robert Charles Winthrop

His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature. ~ Charles Spurgeon

I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995. ~ Charles Jencks

If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it. ~ Charles Edward Montague

It may be night in the soul - but there need be no terror, for the God of love changes not. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers. ~ Charles Marion Russell

The pony preserved his character for independence and principle down to the last moment of his life; which was an unusually long one, and caused him to be looked upon, indeed, as the very Old Parr of ponies. He often went to and fro with the little phaeton between Mr. Garland's and his son's, and, as the old people and the young were frequently together, had a stable of his own at the new establishment, into which he would walk of himself with surprising dignity. He condescended to play with the children, as they grew old enough to cultivate his friendship, and would run up and down the little paddock with them like a dog; but though he relaxed so far, and allowed them such freedoms as caresses, or even to look at his shoes or hang on by his tail, he never permitted anyone among them to mount his back or drive him; thus showing that even their familiarity must have its limits, and that there were points between them far too serious for trifling.
He was not unsusceptible of warm attachments in his later life, for when the good Bachelor came to live with Mr. Garland upon the clergyman's decease, he conceived a great friendship for him, and amiably submitted to be driven by his hands without the least resistance. He did no work for two or three years before he died, but lived on clover; and his last act (like a choleric old gentleman) was to kick his doctor. ~ Charles Dickens

When the voice stopped, he put his hand over his eyes, murmuring ~ Charles Dickens

In Charles Dickens's books I had to admire the way the meanest enemies spoke to each other, with what seemed to me to be the greatest civility. ~ Jane Hamilton

Oftentimes these ministers of darkness tell us truths in little things, to betray us into deeds of greatest consequence. ~ Charles Lamb

Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can't light the torch of another if yours isn't burning. ~ Charles R. Swindoll

Life goes one way only, and whatever opinions you hold about the past have nothing to do with anything but your own damn weakness. Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't. A simple enough lesson, yet hard for Luce to learn. She couldn't ~ Charles Frazier

No man ever served God by doing things tomorrow. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is always easy for those living in the present to feel superior to those who lived in the past. ~ Charles C. Mann

Had I been allowed to testify, I would have told them that there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the bullet that killed President Kennedy was shot from the grassy knoll area. I would have also informed the Warren Commission about the call I received from Lyndon Johnson while we were operating on Lee Harvey Oswald. President Johnson told me that a man in the operating room would get a deathbed confession from Oswald. ~ Charles A. Crenshaw

There is nothing
no, nothing
innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea. ~ Charles Dickens

I would also certainly continue to keep loan repayment interest rates as low as possible. And I would spread the financial aid a little less thinly across all income brackets. ~ Charles Vest

In his mind, Inman likened the swirling paths of vulture flight to the coffee grounds seeking pattern in his cup. Anyone could be oracle for the random ways things fall against each other. It was simple enough to tell fortunes if a man dedicated himself to the idea that the future will inevitably be worse than the past and that time is a path leading nowhere but a place of deep and persistent threat. The way Inman saw it, if a thing like Fredericksburg was to be used as a marker of current position, then many years hence, at the rate we're going, we'll be eating one another raw. ~ Charles Frazier

The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very little for any nobility but that of worth and manhood. ~ Charles Dickens

After the fourth race, a $22.80 winner, he turned again and told Katherine, "I had that one, ten across." She turned away. "His face is yellow, Hank. Did you see his eyes? He's sick." "He's sick on the dream. We're all sick on the dream, that's why we're out here." "Hank, let's go. ~ Charles Bukowski

I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy. ~ Charles Kuralt

Tumbrils of the Revolution. But that Woodman and that Farmer, ~ Charles Dickens