"I am no more annoyed when I..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“The dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown.”

“I only ask for information.”

“When she took her opposite place in the carriage corner, the brightness in her face was so charming to behold, that on her exclaiming, "What beautiful stars and what a glorious night!" the Secretary said "Yes," but seemed to prefer to see the night and the stars in the light of her lovely little countenance, to looking out of window.”

“The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.”

“She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.”

“For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.”

“To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of artthis is one of the fascinating challenges of these days.”

“Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.”

“Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off).”