Tale Of Two Cities Quotes

• I have a bold plan to break from the Bloomberg years, and end the 'Tale of Two Cities' by providing real opportunity to all New Yorkers, no matter where they live.

  Bill de Blasio

  Real, Opportunity, Years

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• I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Struggle, Years

  Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.305, Penguin

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• Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

  Charles Dickens

  Fire, Wind

  Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.277, Penguin

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• Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.

  Charles Dickens

  Cities, Tombs

  Charles Dickens (2011). “A Tale of Two Cities Thrift Study Edition”, p.330, Courier Corporation

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• Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

  Charles Dickens

  Long, Vengeance, Retribution

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

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• Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

  Charles Dickens

  Liberty, Lasts, Fraternity

  Charles Dickens (1868). “A Tale of Two Cities”, p.320

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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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• 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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• It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

  Charles Dickens

  Spring, Communication, Winter

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

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• I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul...Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

  Charles Dickens

  Dream, Fighting, Cities

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• I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Heart, Cities

  'A Tale of Two Cities' (1859) bk. 3, ch. 15 (Sydney Carton's thoughts on the scaffold)

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• I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman, weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other's soul, than I was in the souls of both.

  Charles Dickens

  Husband, Lying, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities”, p.348, Xist Publishing

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• A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Funny, Family

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• Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.

  Charles Dickens

  Wine, Paris, Six

  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].”

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• Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

  Charles Dickens

  Exercise, Men, Sight

  Charles Dickens (2005). “A Tale of Two Cities - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.87, Prestwick House Inc

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• It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Death, Book

  A Tale of Two Cities bk. 3, ch. 15 (1859)

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• It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Time, Cities

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

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• Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.

  Charles Dickens

  Crush, Yield, Humanity

  Charles Dickens, General Press (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution”, p.339, GENERAL PRESS

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• A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

  Charles Dickens

  Dream, Cities, Wish

  Charles Dickens (2015). “British Classics: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)”, p.126, The Planet

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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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• You have been the last dream of my soul.

  Charles Dickens

  Dream, Cities, Soul

  Charles Dickens (1873). “Tale of Two Cities”, p.95

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• I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives. "Jerry, say that my answer was, 'RECALLED TO LIFE.

  Charles Dickens

  Echoes, Listening, Answers

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• Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.

  Charles Dickens

  Dog, Attitude, Philosophy

  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].”

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• Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well-thousands of acres of land-a whole province of France-all France itself-lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hairbreadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Stars, Lying

  Charles Dickens (2012). “A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)”, p.171, Top Five Books LLC

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• I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

  Charles Dickens

  Age, Way, Young

  Charles Dickens (1873). “Tale of Two Cities”, p.198

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