Charles Dickens Quotes About Hard Times

• Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Hard Times, Animal

  Charles Dickens (1858). “Hard Times”, p.205

• There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

  Charles Dickens

  Regret, Hard Times, Long

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7501, Delphi Classics

• Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

  Charles Dickens

  Hard Times, Roots, Facts

  Charles Dickens (1858). “Hard Times”, p.205

• Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

  Charles Dickens

  Hard Times, Want, Statistics

  Hard Times bk. 1, ch. 1 (1854)

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