Charles Dickens Quotes About Waiting

• Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Sea, Waiting

  Charles Dickens (1844). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit: His Relatives, Friends and Enemies ...”, p.169

• "We will wait," answered little Alice, taking Nettie's hand in hers, and looking up to the sky, "we will wait - ever constant and true - till the times have got so changed as that everything helps us out, and nothing makes us ridiculous, and the fairies have come back. We will wait - ever constant and true - till we are eighty, ninety, or one hundred. And then the fairies will send US children, and we will help them out, poor pretty little creatures, if they pretend ever so much."

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Children, Hands

  Charles Dickens (1871). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces”, p.516

• When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.

  Charles Dickens

  Waiting, Devil, Ready

• Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.

  Charles Dickens

  Laughing, Waiting, Cry

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