Charles Dickens Quotes - Page 7

• 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 have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to beat, I would cease to be. But you know what I mean. I have no softness there, no—sympathy—sentiment—nonsense.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Mean, Doubt

  Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.267

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• If you can't get to be oncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. So don't tell no more on 'em, Pip, and live well and die happy.

  Charles Dickens

  Uncommon, Live Well, Wells

  "Tale of Two Cities".

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

  Charles Dickens

  Political, Preparation, Political Life

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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!

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  Love, Giving Up, Real

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

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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.

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  Beautiful, Dream, Childhood

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

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• My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property.

  Charles Dickens

  Stars, Great Expectations, Property

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Great Expectations”, p.190, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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• 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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• Joe gave me some more gravy.

  Charles Dickens

  Gravy

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

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• Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Innocent Man, Words Of Wisdom

  CHARLES DICKENS (1871). “THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK, AND SKETCHES BY "BOZ".”, p.122

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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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• 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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• 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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