There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Charles Dickens Quotes
I think it’s liquid aggravation that circulates through his veins, and not regular blood.
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are fatuous preservers of youthful looks.
“If the law supposes that,” said Mr. Bumble… “the law is a ass – a idiot. If that’s the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience – by experience.”
There are only two styles of portrait painting, the serious and the smirk.
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that. (“Martin Chuzzlewit”)
Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in fell a trifle short of the wearer’s expectation.
I know’d what’ud come o’ this here mode o’ doin bisness. Oh Sammy, Sammy, vy worn’t there a alleybi!
If your governor don’t prove a alleybi, he’ll be what the Italians call reg’larly flummoxed.
Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.
