H.W. Charles Quotes
In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.
It's an awful stretcher to believe that a peacock's tail was thus formed but ... most people just don't get it - I must be a very bad explainer
Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.
True zeal is connected with a holy life. It is remarkable how often the greatest zealots for God, the Church, and sound doctrine (as they regard it), have been unholy and even immoral in their lives.
I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven.
I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.
Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation.
Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.
I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.
God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.
Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future, a posture that may be uncomfortable but which at least allows us to keep on looking at familiar things as long as we can.
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous.
I think constraints are very important. They're positive, because they allow you to work off something.
I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.
Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality
Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.
It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. . . . Justice and liberty die quietly, because men first learn to ignore injustice and then no longer recognize it.
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
