1,228 Quotes About Words-of-wisdom

The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.

If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.

This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

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.

Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

"O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and me."