Charles Dickens Quotes - Page 26

• When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.

  Charles Dickens

  Rain, Book, Dark

  Charles Dickens (2015). “The Long Voyage”, p.3, Booklassic

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• There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

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  Passion, Hunting, Breasts

  Oliver Twist ch. 10 (1838)

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• "Hope, you see, Wal'r," said the Captain, sagely, "Hope. It's that as animates you. Hope is a buoy, for which you overhaul your Little Warbler, sentimental diwision, but Lord, my lad, like any other buoy, it only floats; it can't be steered nowhere. Along with the figure-head of Hope,' said the Captain, 'there's a anchor; but what's the good of my having a anchor, if I can't find no bottom to let it go in?"

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  Inspirational, Anchors, Let It Go

  Charles Dickens (1872). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.284

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• It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

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  Truth, Greatness, Men

  Bleak House ch. 28 (1853)

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• Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.

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  Sadness, Brightness, Faces

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• Then I'm sorry to say, I've eat your pie.

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  Sorry, Pie, I'm Sorry

  Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.34, The Planet

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• I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul...Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

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  Dream, Fighting, Cities

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• I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he read, and made clammy tracks along the page (or so I fully believed) like a snail.

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  Book, Reading, Character

  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.141

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• 'I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it - even in many of its apparent lightnesses and contradictions - not the less difficult to achieve, because they have no earthly chronicle or audience - done every day in nooks and corners, and in little households, and in men's and women's hearts - any one of which might reconcile the sternest man to such a world, and fill him with belief and hope in it.

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  Inspirational, Believe, Struggle

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books”, p.259, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the world - the figure of the sharp female called La Guillotine. It was the popular theme for jests; it was the best cure for headache, it infallibly prevented hair from turning gray, it imparted a peculiar delicacy to the complexion, it was the National Razor which shaved close: who kissed La Guillotine looked through the little window and sneezed into the sack.

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  Hair, Foundation, Female

  Charles Dickens, General Press (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution”, p.252, GENERAL PRESS

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• ... Natural affections and instincts, my dear sir, are the most beautiful of the Almighty's works, but like other beautiful works of His, they must be reared and fostered, or it is as natural that they should be wholly obscured, and that new feelings should usurp their place, as it is that the sweetest productions of the earth, left untended, should be choked with weeds and briers.

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  Beautiful, Weed, Feelings

  Charles Dickens (1866). “Works: ¬The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ; 2”, p.186

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• An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror.

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  Eye, Mad, Black

  Charles Dickens (2003). “Oliver Twist”, p.53, Collector's Library

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• If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.

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  Funny, Humorous, Ideas

  'Dombey and Son' (1848) ch. 48 (Mr Toots)

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• When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.

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  Thinking, Words Of Wisdom, Papa

  Charles Dickens, Peter Preston (1998). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Stories”, p.388, Wordsworth Editions

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• No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

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  Expectations, Woods, Grain

  Charles Dickens (1861). “Great Expectations”, p.248

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• There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.

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  Taken, Connections, Physiognomy

  Charles Dickens (1861). “The Lamplighter's Story; Hunted Down; the Detective Police; and Other Nouvellettes”, p.21

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• Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.

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  Art, Children, Natural

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• Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy. -Miss Havisham

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  Heart, Pride, Missing

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• I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!

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  New Year, School, Angel

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Dickens' Christmas Spirits: A Christmas Carol and Other Tales”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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• The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.

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  White, Tears, Haunting

  CHARLES DICKENS (1867). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.412

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• Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted the scene of their distress. Icicle-hung caves and cellars built for refuges from sudden storms, were like so many whispers of the perils of the place; never-resting wreaths and mazes of mist wandered about, hunted by a moaning wind; and snow, the besetting danger of the mountain, against which all its defences were taken, drifted sharply down.

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  Taken, Skeletons, Wind

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit”, p.448, Cosimo, Inc.

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• [I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.

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  Night, Air, Sky

  Charles Dickens (1865). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.119

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• There lives at least one being who can never change-one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your happiness-who lives but in your eyes-who breathes but in your smiles-who bears the heavy burden of life itself only for you.

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  Love, Eye, Burdens Of Life

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.61

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• "O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and me."

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  Words Of Wisdom, Feelings, Comfort

  CHARLES DICKENS (1867). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.501

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• Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

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  Life, Success, Men

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