Logo
Quote by Charles Dickens
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and youve conquered human nature.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and youve conquered human nature. – Charles Dickens

Other quotes by Charles Dickens

A man in public life expects to be sneered at — it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself. – Charles Dickens

Category:
Public
Author
Charles Dickens
Read Quote

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time. – Charles Dickens

Category:
Time
Author
Charles Dickens
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Nature
category

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. – Henri Poincare

Category:
Nature

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. – John Berger, The Sense of Sight, 1980

Category:
Nature

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature. – Luc de Clapiers

Category:
Nature

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. – Hal Borland

Category:
Nature

Random Quotes

We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups. – Jane Harman

Category:
Intelligence

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups. – Cathy Guisewite

Category:
Food

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. – Anna Quindlen, "Enough Bookshelves," New York Times, 7 August 1991

Category:
Books

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didnt know how other people would take it. – B. B. King

Category:
Family