Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling famous quotes

A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
-- Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling

#Confidence #Answers

Much truth is spoken, that more may be concealed.
-- Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling

#Lying #May #Truth Is

Perjury is often bold and open. It is truth that is shamefaced - as, indeed, in many cases is no more than decent.
-- Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling

#Perjury #Cases #Decent

We can be of little service to our fellows until we become disillusioned without being embittered.
-- Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling

#Littles #Disillusioned #Fellows

The law of England is a very strange one; it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.
-- Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling

#Years #Law #Giving

If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.

To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.

Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up.

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap

How should they answer?

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.