Marshalsea Quotes

#1. And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through which it had since groped, and knew of nothing beyond the Marshalsea.

Charles Dickens

#2. Who was never vexed by the great exactions he made of her in return for the riches he might have given her if he had ever had them, and who lovingly closed his eyes upon the Marshalsea and all its blighted fruits.

Charles Dickens

#3. It's always crude to link Dickens back to the blacking factory where he was sent to work aged 12 when his father was imprisoned in Marshalsea Prison for bad debt, but it was obviously a huge part of him.

Harry Lloyd

#4. Marshalsea and all its blighted fruits. They went quietly down into the roaring streets, inseparable and blessed; and as they passed along in sunshine and shade, the noisy and the eager, and the arrogant and the froward and the vain, fretted

Charles Dickens

#5. fellow,' said the Father of the Marshalsea, laying his hand upon his shoulder, and mildly rallying him - mildly, because of his weakness, poor dear soul;

Charles Dickens

#6. The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

Mark Twain

#7. For when you suffer, you can be sure that one of two things is happening. Either God is teaching you to rely on his grace and sufficiency through your pain, or he is teaching you to return to his grace and sufficiency through your pain.

Joe Thorn

#8. So now I'm getting my gown made by an exclusive seamstress, and all thos anorexic whores on Michigan Avenue and Oak Street who made me feel like the Goodyear blimp can kiss the very fattest part of my ass.

Jen Lancaster

#9. Is that how you play?" Daisy asked breezily. "I just envision how I want the bowl to go, and then I roll it.

Lisa Kleypas

#10. I don't vote. I don't do no voting.

Kendrick Lamar

#11. You are such a sleazeball, Rhodes - walking, talking proof of why siblings shouldn't marry.

Cherise Sinclair

#12. Not surprisingly, the insurance lobby recoils in horror at the prospect of automatic coverage ( including, when it was first proposed, Social Security), no matter how efficient it may be. Automatic coverage eliminates sales commissions and profit.

Andrew Tobias

#13. Susan, who has an avoidant attachment style, ... sees need as a weakness and looks down on people who become dependent on their partner,

Amir Levine

#14. Since Genesis 3 we have been addicted to setting our sights on something, someone, smaller than Jesus.

Tullian Tchividjian

#15. There is justice in hell, but sin is the most unjust thing. It would rob God of his glory, Christ of his purchase, the soul of its happiness.

Thomas Watson

#16. For us, the universe goes only as far as light has travelled in the billions of years since the universe was formed.

Bill Bryson

#17. One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew high enough you could always find the sun.

Tom Clancy

#18. The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.

Agnes Varda

#19. Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.

Fulton J. Sheen