Charles Dickens Quotes About Hatred

• There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.

  Charles Dickens

  Passion, Pride, Names

  Charles Dickens (1995). “Christmas Books”, p.46, Wordsworth Editions

• What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Lying, Men

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.27

• The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence may teach us how to weave fresh garlands for the graves of those we loved: may purify our thoughts, and bear down before it old enmity and hatred; but beneath all this, there lingers, in the least reflective mind, a vague and half-formed consciousness of having held such feelings long before, in some remote and distant time, which calls up solemn thoughts of distant times to come, and bends down pride and worldliness beneath it.

  Charles Dickens

  Country, Nature, Memories

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Oliver Twist”, p.199, Pan Macmillan

• It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.

  Charles Dickens

  Evil, Hatred, Vices

  Charles Dickens (2001). “Hard Times”, p.52, Courier Corporation

• How beautiful you are! You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. I don't ask you for your love; give me yourself and your hatred; give me yourself and that pretty rage; give me yourself and that enchanting scorn; it will be enough for me.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Hate, Giving

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Edwin Drood and Miscellaneous”, p.196, Cosimo, Inc.

• I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomised our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me.

  Charles Dickens

  Believe, Party, Sarcasm

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.280, Xist Publishing

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