Charles Dickens Quotes - Page 7

• Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Father, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty'”, p.25, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

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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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• Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Sacrifice, Men

  Charles Dickens (2012). “A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)”, p.143, Top Five Books LLC

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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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• Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

  Charles Dickens

  Papa, Literature, Potatoes

  Little Dorrit bk. 2, ch. 5 (1857)

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• Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.

  Charles Dickens

  Winning, Race, Obstacles

  David Copperfield ch. 28 (1850)

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• There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Literature, Emotion

  'Barnaby Rudge' (1841) ch. 22 (Mr Tappertit)

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• The dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Dream, Childhood

  Charles Dickens (2004). “The Shorter Novels of Charles Dickens”, p.533, Wordsworth Editions

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• Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Judging, World

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.1736, Delphi Classics

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• Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

  Charles Dickens

  Political, Preparation, Political Life

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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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• Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

  Charles Dickens

  Words Of Wisdom, Crowds, Noise

  Charles Dickens (1841). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.58, B Times

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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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• Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Christmas, Xmas

  "The Pickwick Papers". Book by Charles Dickens, 1836.

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• Joe gave me some more gravy.

  Charles Dickens

  Gravy

  Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.23, The Planet

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• Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

  Charles Dickens

  Food, Human Nature, Abstinence

  Nicholas Nickleby ch. 5 (1839)

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• There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Mind, Unhappy

  Charles Dickens (1992). “David Copperfield”, p.564, Wordsworth Editions

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• I ate 'umble pie with an appetite.

  Charles Dickens

  Humility, Pie, Appetite

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

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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. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Night, Cities

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

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• Satisfy yourself beyond all doubt that you are qualified for the course to which you now aspire.....and try to achieve something in your own land before you venture on a strange one.

  Charles Dickens

  Land, Doubt, Trying

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• Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

  Charles Dickens

  Great Expectations, May, Let Me

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

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• I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

  Charles Dickens

  Freedom, Butterfly, Deny

  Bleak House ch. 6 (1853)

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• He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

  Charles Dickens

  Commitment, Ifs, Interesting Characters

  Charles Dickens (1866). “Works of Charles Dickens”, p.205

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• And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!

  Charles Dickens

  Grief, Loss, Grieving

  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.151

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