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Wood Quotes by Charles Dickens
- Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood...…
- Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted…
- No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.
- it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true…
More Wood Quotes
- Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with… — Saint Augustine
- Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and… — Francis Bacon
- One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when… — Christian Bale
- Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests… — Karl Barth
- The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the… — Henry Beston
- I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't… — Sade Adu
- I remember when Victoria Wood started to come through, and I thought she was great, though she and I are very different… — Jo Brand
- I've always been criticised for how filthy my material is. Victoria Wood said to me once, 'I wish I was a bit… — Jo Brand
- I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood. — George Carlin
- In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was… — Dante Alighieri
- There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul. — Jean Cocteau
- Know yourself and you will win all battles. Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire… — Sun Tzu