9 Quotes by Charles Reade

I mean to take a good look at any man ere I leap into his arms.'Then look your fill, and leap away.

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny

A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor

Judicious absence is a weapon.