Charles Dickens Quotes About Perception

• It was the momentary yielding of a nature that had been disappointed from the dawn of its perceptions, but had not quite given up all its hopeful yearnings yet.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Interesting, Hopeful

  CHARLES DICKENS (1867). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.21

• He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Agony, Numbers

  CHARLES DICKENS (1867). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.289

• Mrs. Lammle's manner changed under the poor silly girl's embraces, and she turned extremely pale: directing one appealing look, first to Mrs. Boffin, and then to Mr. Boffin. Both understood her instantly, with a more delicate subtlety than much better educated people, whose perception came less directly from the heart, could have brought to bear upon the case.

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Silly, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.856, Charles Dickens

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