Charles Dickens Quotes - Page 22

• This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, reading as if for life.

  Charles Dickens

  Summer, Reading, Boys

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.4368, Delphi Classics

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• You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.

  Charles Dickens

  Breathing, Wife, Missing

  Charles Dickens (2011). “A Tale of Two Cities Thrift Study Edition”, p.285, Courier Corporation

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• Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.

  Charles Dickens

  Opportunity, Men, May

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Barnaby Rudge”, p.129, Tyché

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• They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Holiday, Mind

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.580, Delphi Classics

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• What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O yes!

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Peace, War

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Bleak House”, p.150

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• There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Names, Magic

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.126

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• The more especially, as in my juvenile frankness, I took some credit to myself for being so confidential and felt that I was quite the patron of my two respectful entertainers.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Two, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.4541, Delphi Classics

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• On summer evenings, when every flower, and tree, and bird, might have better addressed my soft young heart, I have in my day been caught in the palm of a female hand by the crown, have been violently scrubbed from the neck to the roots of the hair as a purification for the Temple, and have then been carried off highly charged with saponaceous electricity, to be steamed like a potato in the unventilated breath of the powerful Boanerges Boiler and his congregation, until what small mind I had, was quite steamed out of me

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Summer, Powerful

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.57

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• A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.

  Charles Dickens

  Real, Words Of Wisdom, Quality

  Charles Dickens (1858). “Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.107

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• Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?

  Charles Dickens

  Thinking, Words Of Wisdom, Secret

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.345

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• A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so.

  Charles Dickens

  Attitude, Ignorance, Littles

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.20

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• There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.

  Charles Dickens

  Hope, Heart, Lovely

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• There was no wind; there was no passing shadow on the deep shade of the night; there was no noise. The city lay behind him, lighted here and there, and starry worlds were hidden by the masonry of spire and roof that hardly made out any shapes against the sky. Dark and lonely distance lay around him everywhere, and the clocks were faintly striking two.

  Charles Dickens

  Lonely, Distance, Dark

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export”, p.863, Jester House Publishing via PublishDrive

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• "Well," said my aunt, "this is his boy - his son. He would be as like his father as it's possible to be, if he was not so like his mother, too."

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Mother, Father

  Charles Dickens (1872). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.87

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• Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.

  Charles Dickens

  Writing, Support, Events

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• I wish I were the Commander in Chief in India... I should do my utmost to exterminate the Race upon whom the stain of the late cruelties rested.

  Charles Dickens

  Race, Wish, India

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am in the theatrical profession myself, my wife is in the theatrical profession, my children are in the theatrical profession.I had a dog that lived and died in it from a puppy; and my chaise-pony goes on, in Timour the Tartar.

  Charles Dickens

  Dog, Children, Wife

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.177

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• Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.

  Charles Dickens

  Sports, Dream, Night

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.91

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• She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink, no looking down, or looking back. I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Gone, Saws

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.277

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• "Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future."

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Interesting, Pages

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.475

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• She writhes under her life. A woman more angry, passionate, reckless, and revengeful never lived.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Interesting, Passionate

  CHARLES DICKENS (1867). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.341

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• If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!' your seventy-eight years would be seventy-eight heavy curses; would they not?

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Heart

  Charles Dickens (1904). “A tale of two cities, with intr., notes, and analytical list of characters”

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• We part with tender relations stretching far behind us, that never can be exactly renewed, and with others dawning - yet before us.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Relation, Stretching

  Charles Dickens (1869). “Christmas Books”, p.258

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• Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!

  Charles Dickens

  Loss, Names, Ships

  Charles Dickens (1861). “The Uncommercial Traveller”, p.232

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• Thus, it comes to pass, that a certain room in a certain old hall, where a certain bad lord, baronet, knight, or gentleman, shot himself, has certain planks in the floor from which the blood will not be taken out. You may scrape and scrape, as the present owner has done, or plane and plane, as his father did, or scrub and scrub, as his grandfather did, or burn and burn with strong acids, as his great-grandfather did, but, there the blood will still be - no redder and no paler - no more and no less - always just the same.

  Charles Dickens

  Strong, Father, Taken

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Some Christmas Stories”, p.14, Xist Publishing

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