Charles Reade Quotes

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The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.

Charles Reade
Not a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows. Of these obscure heroes, philosophers, and martyrs the greater part will never be known.

Charles Reade
Recipe for writing novels:
Make 'em laugh, make 'em cry, make 'em wait.

Charles Reade
Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Charles Reade
…even Christians loved one another at first starting.

Charles Reade
The fortunate man is he who, born poor, or nobody, works gradually up to wealth and consideration, and, having got them, dies before he finds they were not worth so much trouble.

Charles Reade
Lower a bucket into a well of self-deception, and what comes up must be immortal truth, mustn't it?

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First, think in as homely a way as you can; next, shove your pen under the thought, and lift it by polysyllables to the true level of fiction

Charles Reade
Take courage, my friend, the devil is dead!

Charles Reade
It must be confessed that a sort of halo of personal grandeur surrounds a great actress.

Charles Reade
Good advice is like a tight glove; it fits the circumstances, and it does not fit other circumstances.

Charles Reade
Well, every one for himself, and Providence for us all—as the elephant said when he danced among the chickens.

Charles Reade