Charles Dickens Quotes - Page 11

• A man must take the fat with the lean.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Fats, Resignation

  David Copperfield ch. 51 (1850)

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• In love of home, the love of country has its rise.

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  Country, Love You, Home

  Charles Dickens (1841). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.2, B Times

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• For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

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  Christmas, Children, Sometimes

  Charles Dickens (1845). “A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas”, p.111

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• A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

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  Words Of Wisdom, Speech, Earnest

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.38

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• The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

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  Bible, Book, Biblical

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• She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.

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  Ideas, House, Stories

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge”, p.173, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

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  People, Coats, Holiness

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.141

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• There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea.

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  Children, Sea, Play

  Charles Dickens (1841). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.102, B Times

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• A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.

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  Love, Sympathy, Eye

  Charles Dickens (1866). “Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.296

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• On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . .

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  Nature, Autumn, Jewels

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.5

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• May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.

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  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Done

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Ghost Stories”, p.113, Pan Macmillan

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• The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far we are pursued by nothing else.

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  Moon, Night, Clouds

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7065, Delphi Classics

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• There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.

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  Plenty, Stationery, Comfortable

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Great Expectations: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.58, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

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  Flower, Memorable, Thinking

  Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.62, The Planet

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• If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.

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  Thinking, Hiking, Feet And Walking

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• 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.

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  Regret, Hard Times, Long

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

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• Death is a mighty, universal truth.

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  Death, Universal Truth, Universal

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• A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

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  Cities, Reflecting Upon, Profound

  A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 3 (1859)

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• I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?

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  Men, Words Of Wisdom, Way

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.55

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• Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.

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  Strong, Great Expectations, Caught

  Charles Dickens (1873). “Tale of Two Cities”, p.275

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• Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.

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  Scrooge, Charity, Mercy

  Charles Dickens (1845). “A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas”, p.33

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• My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.

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  Giving, Tea, Cups

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy”, p.14, Booklassic

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• Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering

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  Suffering, Income, Cost

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• ... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

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  Character, People, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (2001). “David Copperfield”, p.415, Broadview Press

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• It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning.

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  Lonely, Nature, Night

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.731, Booklassic

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