Quote by Charles Dickens

'There may be some, perhaps - I don't know that there are - who abuse his kindness,' said Mr. Wickfield. 'Never be one of…

— Charles Dickens

“For an instant she hesitated. Baldanders said, 'You may trust him. The doctor has his own way of looking at the world, but he…

— Gene Wolfe

“The doctor who treats himself has a fool for a patient.”

— Sir William Osler

“He would be painstaking in his approach, meticulous. For there was nothing more dangerous, he thought, than a patient man.”

— Daniel Silva

“Like most doctors, the fanciest ones, he seemed offensively healthy, as if he kept the real secret of vitality to himself. He would live…

— Ben Marcus

“Next day, after lunch, I went to see "our" doctor, a friendly fellow whose perfect bedside manner and complete reliance on a few patented…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image,…

— J.G. Ballard

“The doctor was not, he thought, really sure that anyone else existed, and wanted to prove they did by helping them.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“A man burdened with a secret should especially avoid the intimacy of his physician.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Doc would listen to any kind of nonsense and turn it into wisdom. His mind had no horizon - and his sympathy had no…

— John Steinbeck

“I could worry about his health but somehow not about my own. We throw ourselves away a little each day. Dr.”

— Padma Lakshmi

“He did not know, and perhaps this doctor did. And he could not take the chance of pitting his certain ignorance against this man's…

— John Steinbeck