Charles Dickens Quotes - Page 6

• 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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  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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• 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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• Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

  Charles Dickens

  Winter, Darkness, Scrooge

  Charles Dickens (1845). “A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas”, p.22

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

  Charles Dickens

  Pride, Sickness, Breaking Down

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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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• Have a heart that never hardens

  Charles Dickens

  Heart

  Charles Dickens (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens ...”

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• A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

  Charles Dickens

  Cities, Reflecting Upon, Profound

  A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 3 (1859)

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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 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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• I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

  Charles Dickens

  Reality, Words Of Wisdom, Accomplished

  Charles Dickens (2006). “David Copperfield”, p.723, Penguin

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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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• Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

  Charles Dickens

  Summer, Spring, Winter

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• Grief never mended no broken bones.

  Charles Dickens

  Grief, Broken, Bones

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

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• Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.

  Charles Dickens

  Blowing Up

  Charles Dickens “Oliver Twist”, Lulu.com

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• There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.

  Charles Dickens

  Passion, Pride, Names

  Charles Dickens (1995). “Christmas Books”, p.46, Wordsworth Editions

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• My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

  Charles Dickens

  People, Whole, Governing

  Speech at Birmingham and Midland Institute, 27 September 1869, in K. J. Fielding (ed.) 'The Speeches of Charles Dickens' (1960)

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• The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season's greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year be filled with joy.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, New Year, Holiday

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• Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

  Charles Dickens

  Hard Times, Roots, Facts

  Charles Dickens (1858). “Hard Times”, p.205

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• Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.

  Charles Dickens

  Oysters, Together, Poverty

  'Pickwick Papers' (1837) ch. 22 (Sam Weller)

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• Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

  Charles Dickens

  Happiness, Money, Business

  David Copperfield ch. 12 (1850)

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• I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did!

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Giving Up, Real

  Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.198, The Planet

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