"I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself."

Heaven, Purity

5

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself."

Exlpore more Heaven quotes

"You have the privilege of presenting a picture of what heaven will be like to those around you."

Elizabeth George, American Author

Heaven, Privilege, Life, Faith

"This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven."

Thomas More, English Author

Heaven, Reason

"In heaven there will be no tears, because every tear was cried when Jesus died on the cross."

Alin Sav, Romanian Author

Heaven, Tears, Faith, Truth

"There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell."

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, American Educator

Heaven, Hell, Meeting, Will

"Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that's the light."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Heaven, Love, Light, Comfort

"Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Heaven, Hell, Parting

"Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Heaven, Lies, Lying, Pretty

"O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Heaven, Temper

"Heaven's currency is friendship."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Heaven, Friendship, Truth, Happiness, Inspirational

"The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven."

Neale Donald Walsch, American Author

Heaven,

Explore more quotes by Goldwin Smith

"I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself."

Heaven, Purity

"The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation."

Humanity, Observation

"Personality is lower than partiality."

Personality,

"Whatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings or influences the existence of which may be implied in theirs."

Existence, May

"Above all nations is humanity."

Humanity, Nations

"It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions."

History, Doctrine, Evolution, Influence

"The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature."

Nature, Work, Humannature, Study

"Rome was great in arms, in government, in law."

Government, Law, Rome

"Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there."

Civilization, Conquest, Duty, England

"The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke."

Character, Arrogance, English