Charles Dickens Quotes - Page 11

• Nothing is discovered without God's intention and assistance, and I suppose every new knowledge of His works that is conceded to man to be distinctly a revelation by which men are to guide themselves.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Intention, Revelations

  Charles Dickens, Georgina Hogarth, Mary Dickens (2011). “Letters of Charles Dickens: 1833-1870”, p.561, Cambridge University Press

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• I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Heart, Cities

  'A Tale of Two Cities' (1859) bk. 3, ch. 15 (Sydney Carton's thoughts on the scaffold)

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• You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since-on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Boys, Clouds

  Great Expectations ch. 44 (1861)

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• Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up...

  Charles Dickens

  Writing, Fire, Hair

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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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• 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.

  Charles Dickens

  Flower, Memorable, Thinking

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

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• Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Thinking

  Charles Dickens (1852). “Bleak House”, p.108

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• I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee.

  Charles Dickens

  Coffee, Spirit, Settling

  Charles Dickens (1992). “David Copperfield”, p.330, Wordsworth Editions

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• Love is not a feeling to pass away
  Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day.......
  Love is not a passion of earthly mould
  As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Summer, Passion

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.12259, Delphi Classics

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• The dew seemed to sparkle more brightly on the green leaves the air to rustle among them with a sweeter music and the sky itself to look more blue and bright. Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercise, even over the appearance of external objects.

  Charles Dickens

  Exercise, Air, Blue

  Charles Dickens (1849). “The Novels and Tales of Charles Dickens, (Boz.).”, p.135

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• When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better--those I love are gathered together; and if that place where a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.

  Charles Dickens

  Home, Names, Together

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.1620, Delphi Classics

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• Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within;.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Rain, Doors

  Charles Dickens (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities (Falcon Classics) [The 50 Best Classic Books Ever - # 24]”, p.232, Charles Dickens

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• You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.

  Charles Dickens

  People, Everyday, Passing Away

  Charles Dickens (2016). “David Copperfield (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.92, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

  Charles Dickens

  Past, Influence, Vain

  Charles Dickens (1992). “David Copperfield”, p.298, Wordsworth Editions

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• Death is a mighty, universal truth.

  Charles Dickens

  Death, Universal Truth, Universal

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• The sum of the whole is this: walk and b« happy! walk and be healthy. The best of all ways to lengthen ourdays, is notas Mr. Thomas Moore has it, " ]To steal a few hours from night, my love;" but with leave, be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose.

  Charles Dickens

  Healthy, Purpose, Way

  "Household Words".

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• The law is an ass, an idiot.

  Charles Dickens

  Law, Idiot, Ass

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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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• ... I feel certain that his tale is true. Feeling that certainty, I befriend him. As long as that certainty shall last, I will befriend him. And if any consideration could shake me in this resolve, I should be so ashamed of myself for my meanness, that no man's good opinion - no, nor no woman's - so gained, could compensate me for the loss of my own.

  Charles Dickens

  Loss, Men, Long

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Edwin Drood and Miscellaneous”, p.173, Cosimo, Inc.

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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

  Charles Dickens

  Suffering, Income, Cost

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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.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Sympathy, Eye

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

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• He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

  Charles Dickens

  Running, Eye, Two

  "Nicholas Nickleby".

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• Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language.

  Charles Dickens

  Feelings, Littles, Strange

  Charles Dickens (1848). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ... With a Frontispiece from a Painting by T. Webster ... Engraved by T. Williams”, p.82

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• Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.

  Charles Dickens

  Hope, Struggle, Essence

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.228

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• Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

  Charles Dickens

  Tree, Shade, Way

  1846-8 Captain Cuttle. Dombey and Son, ch.19.

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