Charles Dickens Quotes - Page 38

• I will die here where I have walked. And I will walk here, though I am in my grave. I will walk here until the pride of this house is humbled.

  Charles Dickens

  Pride, House, Scary

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.64

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• I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

  Charles Dickens

  People, Scary, Alive

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.209

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• Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Fall, House

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.282

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• Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging their bread; go, Teachers of content and honest pride, into the mine, the mill, the forge, the squalid depths of deepest ignorance, and uttermost abyss of man's neglect, and say can any hopeful plant spring up in air so foul that it extinguishes the soul's bright torch as fast as it is kindled!

  Charles Dickens

  Teacher, Spring, Ignorance

  Charles Dickens (1844). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, His Relatives, Friends and Enemies: Comprising All His Wills and His Ways, with an Historical Record of what He Did, and what He Didn't ...”, p.245

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• The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.

  Charles Dickens

  Two, People, Tea

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Martin Chuzzlewi”, p.728, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Polly put the kettle on, we'll all have tea.

  Charles Dickens

  Tea, Kettles

  1841 Grip, the raven. Barnaby Rudge, ch.17.

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• The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it.

  Charles Dickens

  Statistics, Observation, Application

  'Dombey and Son' (1848) ch. 23 (Bunsby)

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• "Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more."

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Gentleman

  Charles Dickens (1905). “The Pickwick Papers”, p.541

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• I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.

  Charles Dickens

  Memories, Husband, Men

  'Little Dorrit' (1857) bk. 1, ch. 24 (Flora Finching)

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• "Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."

  Charles Dickens

  Friendship, Said, My Friends

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit, Vol. I”, p.160, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever floored.

  Charles Dickens

  Scene, Leafs, Withered

  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.106

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• How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen!

  Charles Dickens

  Heartbreak, Taken, Unrequited Love

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Barnaby Rudge, And, Hard Times: With Ten Illustrations”, p.193

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• I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy

  Charles Dickens

  New Year, Angel, Light

  Charles Dickens (2016). “A Christmas Carol”, p.85, Charles Dickens

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• I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.

  Charles Dickens

  Morning, Halloween, Night

  Charles Dickens (1841). “Master Humphrey's Clock”, p.239

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• From the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone one way Charles Darnay's way the way of the love of a woman

  Charles Dickens

  Summer, Spiritual, Winter

  Charles Dickens, General Press (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution”, p.123, GENERAL PRESS

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• Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?

  Charles Dickens

  Happiness, Peace, Morning

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Dickens Ultimate Christmas Collection: The Greatest Stories & Novels for Christmas Time: A Christmas Carol, Doctor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree and more (Illustrated): The Best Loved Christmas Classics in One Volume”, p.3654, e-artnow

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• United metropolitan improved hot muffin and crumpet baking and punctual delivery company.

  Charles Dickens

  Hot, Muffins, Baking

  'Nicholas Nickleby' (1839) ch. 2

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• If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot.

  Charles Dickens

  Law, Idiot, Ass

  Oliver Twist ch. 51 (1838). See Glapthorne 1

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• There once was a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a sister, who was a child too, and his constant companion. These two used to wonder all day long. They wondered at the beauty of the flowers; they wondered at the height and blueness of the sky; they wondered at the depth of the bright water; they wondered at the goodness and the power of God who made the lovely world.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Flower, Sky

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Old Curiosity Shop”, p.238

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• Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who looks into ten thousand faces for some answering look and never finds it, is in cheering society as compared with him who passes ten averted faces daily, that were once the countenances of friends

  Charles Dickens

  Cheer, Live Life, Fall

  Charles Dickens “Hard Times”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have
  established my identity.

  Charles Dickens

  Smoking, Identity, Cigar

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• Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one.

  Charles Dickens

  Strong, Home, Names

  Charles Dickens, John Forster (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens ...: Martin Chugglewit”, p.160

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• It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.

  Charles Dickens

  Believe, Long, People

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Nicholas Nickleby. Martin Chuzzlewit. American notes”, p.164

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• I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.

  Charles Dickens

  Running, Pain, Boys

  Charles Dickens (1866). “Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.281

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• At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.

  Charles Dickens

  Tombstone, Wind, Iron

  Charles Dickens (1868). “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.234

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