Charles Dickens Quotes - Page 6

• It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Kings, Humorous

  Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.252

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• Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.

  Charles Dickens

  Writing, Names, Forgiving

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Great Expectations”, p.378, Xist Publishing

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• Your sex have such a surprising animosity against one another, when you do differ.

  Charles Dickens

  Sex, Surprising, Animosity

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak house: With illustr. by H. K. Browne”, p.526

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• Eccentricities of genius.

  Charles Dickens

  Genius, Eccentricity

  Pickwick Papers ch. 30 (1837)

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• There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

  Charles Dickens

  Art, Pain, Two

  Nicholas Nickleby ch. 10 (1839)

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• The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Thinking, Broken

  "Fictional character: Miss Havisham". "Great Expectations" Episode #1.3, www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Saying Goodbye, Expectations

  Charles Dickens (2012). “A Great Expectations in Plain and Simple English (Includes Study Guide, Complete Unabridged Book, Historical Context, Biography”, p.568, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Powerful, Disappointment

  Charles Dickens (1842). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.392

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• ...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

  Charles Dickens

  Looks, Faces, Morrow

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• Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.

  Charles Dickens

  Evil, Unhappy, Ends

  Charles Dickens (2005). “A Tale of Two Cities - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.308, Prestwick House Inc

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• Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

  Charles Dickens

  Believe, Soul, Triumph

  Charles Dickens (2015). “British Classics: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)”, p.150, The Planet

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• Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

  Charles Dickens

  Words Of Wisdom, Gentleman

  'Little Dorrit' (1857) bk. 2, ch. 28 (Rigaud)

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• Grief never mended no broken bones.

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  Grief, Broken, Bones

  1836-7 Sketches by Boz,'Gin Shops'.

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• There are chords in the human heart- strange, varying strings- which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Heart, Passionate

  Charles Dickens (1863). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.430

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• For nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

  Charles Dickens

  Good Morning, Beauty, Time

  Charles Dickens (1839). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.207

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• Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.

  Charles Dickens

  Enemy, Fellows, Interesting Characters

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.4639, Delphi Classics

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• Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

  Charles Dickens

  Procrastination, Thieves, Classic

  Charles Dickens (2016). “David Copperfield (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.131, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

  Charles Dickens

  Pride, Sickness, Breaking Down

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  But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Forgiveness, Heart

  Charles Dickens (1983). “A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas”, p.281, Library of Alexandria

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• Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

  Charles Dickens

  Expectations, Ugly, Helping

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7354, Delphi Classics

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• Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn't paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows - they leap in like sugary ninjas

  Charles Dickens

  Fitness, Attention, Biscuits

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• I ate 'umble pie with an appetite.

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  Humility, Pie, Appetite

  Charles Dickens (1866). “Works of Charles Dickens: The Pickwick papers”, p.143

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• Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

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  Great Expectations, May, Let Me

  Charles Dickens (1862). “Great Expectations”, p.387

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• I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Night, Reality

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.8404, Delphi Classics

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• Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.

  Charles Dickens

  Romantic, Marriage, Wedding

  Charles Dickens (1854). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ... With a Frontispiece from a Painting by T. Webster”, p.490

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