Charles Dickens Quotes - Page 18

• There wasn't room to swing a cat there.

  Charles Dickens

  Cat, Swings, Rooms

  'David Copperfield' (1850) ch. 35

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• A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!

  Charles Dickens

  Body, Damp

  Nicholas Nickleby ch. 34 (1839)

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• I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that most grown people who are remarkable in this respect, may with greater propriety be said not to have lost the faculty, than to have acquired it; the rather, as I generally observe such men to retain a certain freshness, and gentleness, and capacity of being pleased, which are also an inheritance they have preserved from their childhood.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Believe, Thinking

  "The Personal History of David Copperfield".

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• I ate 'umble pie with an appetite.

  Charles Dickens

  Humility, Pie, Appetite

  Charles Dickens (1866). “Works of Charles Dickens: The Pickwick papers”, p.143

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• My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property.

  Charles Dickens

  Stars, Great Expectations, Property

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Great Expectations”, p.190, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Never, never, before Heaven, have I thought of you but as the single, bright, pure, blessed recollection of my boyhood and my youth. Never have I from the first, and never shall I to the last, regard your part in my life, but as something sacred, never to be lightly thought of, never to be esteemed enough, never, until death, to be forgotten.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Blessed, Heaven

  Charles Dickens (1872). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.289

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• You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Words Of Wisdom, Done

  CHARLES DICKENS (1867). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.520

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• If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.

  Charles Dickens

  Pigs, Giving, Mind

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• And what about the cash, my existence's jewel?

  Charles Dickens

  Jewels, Cash, Existence

  Charles Dickens (2016). “The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.208, Xist Publishing

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• The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.

  Charles Dickens

  Blow, Wrecks, Lasts

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.5904, Delphi Classics

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• If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!

  Charles Dickens

  Hands, Sorrow, Tears

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Dombey and Son”, p.488, Xist Publishing

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• ‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

  Charles Dickens

  Fire, Wish, Weakness

  Charles Dickens (2005). “A Tale of Two Cities - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.143, Prestwick House Inc

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• The great grindstone, Earth, had turned when Mr. Lorry looked out again, and the sun was red on the courtyard. But, the lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with red upon it that the sun had never give, and would never take away.

  Charles Dickens

  Morning, Air, Giving

  Charles Dickens (2004). “The Shorter Novels of Charles Dickens”, p.837, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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

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• Discipline must be maintained.

  Charles Dickens

  Discipline

  'Bleak House' (1853) ch. 27 (Mr Bagnet)

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• Novelties please less than they impress.

  Charles Dickens

  Novelty, Impress, Please

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• God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

  Charles Dickens

  God, Lasts, Tiny

  A Christmas Carol stave 3 (1843)

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• It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves

  Charles Dickens

  Respect, Men, Thinking

  Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit”, p.346

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• Please, sir, I want some more.

  Charles Dickens

  Want, Please, Workhouses

  Oliver Twist ch. 2 (1838)

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• I could not help wondering in my own mind....how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary shapes - and whether our butcher contracted for all the deformed sheep that came into the world; but I kept my reflections to myself.

  Charles Dickens

  Reflection, Sheep, Mind

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• Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.

  Charles Dickens

  Blowing Up

  Charles Dickens “Oliver Twist”, Lulu.com

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• God bless us, every one!

  Charles Dickens

  Blessing, God Bless, Bless

  A Christmas Carol stave 3 (1843)

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• Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.

  Charles Dickens

  Country, Mean, Hands

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.1

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• I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.

  Charles Dickens

  Want, Faces, Misery

  Charles Dickens, Jenny Hartley (2012). “The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens”, p.321, Oxford University Press

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• It is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature, that, when the heart is touched and softened by some tranquil happiness or affectionate feeling, the memory of the dead comes over it most powerfully and irresistibly. It would seem almost as though our better thoughts and sympathies were charms, in virtue of which the soul is enabled to hold some vague and mysterious intercourse with the spirits of those whom we loved in life. Alas! how often and how long may these patient angels hover around us, watching for the spell which is so soon forgotten!

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Death, Memories

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