Mr Pecksniff Quotes

#1. Today, as a result of the policy of Macmillan's Government, Great Britain presents in the United Nations the face of Pecksniff and in Katanga the face of Gradgrind.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

#2. Individual liberty is individual power.

John Quincy Adams

#3. The function of posterity is to look after itself.

Dylan Thomas

#4. None of you will survive the night

Scott Cawthon

#5. I don't have answers. I have questions.

James Hillman

#6. There's a bit of the kid in me.

Jeff Bridges

#7. From all of us Scarborough girls, greetings and thanks. This task required two, working together, trusting each other. It required the "us," not the "I." For that is true love, is it not?

Nancy Werlin

#8. Hours seem like minutes when we have something to talk about, and
minutes seem like hours when we have nothing to talk about.

Eraldo Banovac

#9. Reduce the influence of religion upon your life.

Sunday Adelaja

#10. Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.

Larry David

#11. You can have a Great Day, or a Lousy Day; it's totally up to you.

Ed Foreman

#12. What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.

Seneca The Younger

#13. "Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."

Charles Dickens

#14. It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.

William Graham Sumner

#15. " ... It is not my desire to wound the feelings of any person with whom I am connected in family bonds. I may be a hypocrite," said Mr. Pecksniff, cuttingly, "but I am not a brute."

Charles Dickens

#16. Your perception of events dictates your reactions to them.

Elizabeth O'Brien