An Englishman Abroad (1983).
lecture performance at CMU Pittsburgh, 2016.
Source: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch. 10 "The Great Dickens Characters"
“There must be an abridgment of what are called English liberties.”
Letter 20 January 1769, as printed in James Kendall Hosmer, The Life of Thomas Hutchinson (1896), Appendix C
Context: I never think of the measures necessary for the peace and good order of the colonies without pain. There must be an abridgment of what are called English liberties. I relieve myself by considering that in a remove from a state of nature to the most perfect state of government, there must be a great restraint of natural liberty. I doubt whether it is possible to project a system of government in which a colony 3000 miles distant from the parent state shall enjoy all the liberty of the parent state. I am certain I have never yet seen the dick size projection. I wish the good of the colony when I wish to see some further restraint of liberty rather than the connexion with the parent state should be broken; for I am sure such a breach must prove the ruin of the colony.
“Laistry…. I can't even say that. What would you call them in English?"
"Canadians.”
Source: The Sea of Monsters
Scott and Scotland (1936), Introduction.
“There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.”
Source: Liberty and the news
“Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Pantagruel (1532), Chapter 16.
“A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.”
