Charles Dickens Quotes - Page 9

• He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

  Charles Dickens

  Commitment, Ifs, Interesting Characters

  Charles Dickens (1866). “Works of Charles Dickens”, p.205

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• I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed.

  Charles Dickens

  Determination, Men, Order

  Charles Dickens (1858). “The Personal History of David Copperfield ... With Frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.356

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• You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Reason, Staying

  Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.195, Penguin

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• Friendship? Yes Please.

  Charles Dickens

  Friendship, Please

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• In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.

  Charles Dickens

  Secret, Disease, Pestilence

  Charles Dickens (2013). “A Tale of Two Cities Thrift Study Edition”, p.218, Courier Corporation

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• There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week.

  Charles Dickens

  Sunday, Coats, Week

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 524, 1895.

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• Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o’clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.

  Charles Dickens

  Friday, Believe, Hero

  David Copperfield ch. 1 (1850)

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• On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and the meeting will never be. Should possibilities be worse to bear than certainties?

  Charles Dickens

  Pain, Hands, Years

  Charles Dickens (1841). “Master Humphrey's Clock”, p.121

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• All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

  Charles Dickens

  Self, Expectations, Earth

  Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.254

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• But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

  Charles Dickens

  Fighting, Words Of Wisdom, Shadow

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.391

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• Joe gave me some more gravy.

  Charles Dickens

  Gravy

  Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.23, The Planet

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• Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Said, Blindness

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7813, Delphi Classics

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• A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Heart, Winning

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7985, Delphi Classics

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• But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Soul, Tears

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.142

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• Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

  Charles Dickens

  Business, Soul, Prosperity

  Charles Dickens (2017). “A TALE OF TWO CITIES & BARNABY RUDGE (Historical Novels Set In the Time of Great Rebellions): The Riots of Eighty & French Revolution (Illustrated Classics with “The Life of Charles Dickens” & Criticism)”, p.563, e-artnow

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• The law is an ass, an idiot.

  Charles Dickens

  Law, Idiot, Ass

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• Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

  Charles Dickens

  Baby, Fortune Cookie, World

  Nicholas Nickleby Ch. 36

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• Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Mean, Aunt

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.160

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• I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

  Charles Dickens

  Trust, Honesty, Business

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.11724, Delphi Classics

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• Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

  Charles Dickens

  Happiness, Money, Business

  David Copperfield ch. 12 (1850)

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• Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

  Charles Dickens

  Friendship, Wine, Flames

  'The Old Curiosity Shop' (1841) ch. 7 (Dick Swiveller)

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• The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and weathercocks, and rushing round and round a confined adjacent churchyard as if it had a mind to blow the dead citizens out of their graves. The low thunder, muttering in all quarters of the sky at once, seemed to threaten vengeance for this attempted desecration, and to mutter, "Let them rest! Let them rest!

  Charles Dickens

  Blow, Clouds, Wind

  CHARLES DICKENS (1873). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.153

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• There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Mind, Unhappy

  Charles Dickens (1992). “David Copperfield”, p.564, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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.

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• Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Heart, Literature

  "David Copperfield". Book by Charles Dickens, 1850.

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