Famous Quotes

"It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations."

Charles Dickens on Great

More quotes about Great

• "Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Great

• "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

  Albert Einstein on Great

• "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

  William Shakespeare on Great

• "One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton on Great

• "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

  Winston Churchill on Great

More quotes by Charles Dickens

• "The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons."

• "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

• "A boy's story is the best that is ever told."

• "There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts."

• "Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions."