Quotes about Perspective

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

You talk very easily of hours, sir! How long do you suppose, sir, that an hour is to a man who is choking for want of air?

In short, I should have liked to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet be man enough to know its value

It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did. But I think she did not. I think that in the endurance of her own trial, she forgot mine, Estella.

Such,' thought Mr. Pickwick, 'are the narrow views of those philosophers who, content with examining the things that lie before them, look not to the truths which are hidden beyond.

Everything in our lives, whether of good or evil, affects us most by contrast

Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never have had it?

If, any sunny forenoon, she had spread a little pair of wings and flown away before my eyes, I don't think I should have regarded it as much more than I had had reason to expect.

conventional phrases are a sort of fireworks, easily let off, and liable to take a great variety of shapes and colours not at all suggested by their original form.

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind;

If nothing worse than Ale happens to us, we are well off.

remember how strong we are in our happiness, and how weak he is in his misery!