Clearness Quote by Charles Kingsley

This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good trait in…

— Charles Dickens

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself...

— George Eliot

He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but…

— James Hogg

“He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“His strongest tastes were negative. He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing, and jazz--everything in fact that had happened in his own lifetime. The tiny kindling…

— Evelyn Waugh

stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.

— Laura Lippman

I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.

— Anonymous

He liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker.

— Warren G. Harding

Perhaps he had to be close in order to keep a reason for the things he did. To make the things he did be…

— Robert Penn Warren

He was in awe of the thirst that people had for someone to tell them that everything was going to be all right. He…

— Craig Ferguson

“He was hungry to learn about things. Unlike most of us, he was the sort of person who insisted on living out his beliefs.”

— Wayne Westerberg

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS…

— William Shakespeare