Tale Of Two Cities Quotes - Page 2

• Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.

  Charles Dickens

  Effort, Cost, Littles

  Charles Dickens, General Press (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution”, p.307, GENERAL PRESS

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• He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Faithful, World

  Charles Dickens (2015). “A Tale of Two Cities: World Classics”, p.99, World Classic

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• Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.

  Charles Dickens

  Lows, Involuntary, Homage

  Charles Dickens (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities”, p.114, Xist Publishing

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• That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

  Charles Dickens

  Cities, Mind, Vision

  Charles Dickens, Gillen D'Arcy Wood (2003). “A Tale of Two Cities”, p.385, Barnes & Noble

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• Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

  Charles Dickens

  Fire, Wind

  Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.277, Penguin

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• Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.

  Charles Dickens

  Cities, Tombs

  Charles Dickens (2011). “A Tale of Two Cities Thrift Study Edition”, p.330, Courier Corporation

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• Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.

  Charles Dickens

  Crush, Yield, Humanity

  Charles Dickens, General Press (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution”, p.339, GENERAL PRESS

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• I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives. "Jerry, say that my answer was, 'RECALLED TO LIFE.

  Charles Dickens

  Echoes, Listening, Answers

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• It is a long time,' repeated his wife; 'and when is it not a long time? Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.' 'It does not take a long time to strike a man with Lightning,' said Defarge. 'How long,' demanded madame, composedly, 'does it take to make and store the lightning? Tell me?

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Long, Wife

  Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.150, Penguin

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• I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

  Charles Dickens

  Age, Way, Young

  Charles Dickens (1873). “Tale of Two Cities”, p.198

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• Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well-thousands of acres of land-a whole province of France-all France itself-lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hairbreadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Stars, Lying

  Charles Dickens (2012). “A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)”, p.171, Top Five Books LLC

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• Oh, do you have A Tale of Two Cities?" "That silly thing? Men going around getting their heads chopped off for love? Ridiculus." Will unpeeled himself from the door and made his way toward Tessa where she stood by the bookshelves. He gestured expansively at the vast number of volumes all around him. "No, here you'll find all sorts of advice about how to chop off someone else's head if you need to; much more useful.

  Cassandra Clare

  Silly, Men, Doors

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• When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure.

  Dermot Healy

  Teacher, Cities, Two

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• I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life...her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Cities, Two

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• I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I think A Tale of Two Cities was the first Dickens novel I read.

  George Brandis

  Reading, Thinking, Cities

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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