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“But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.”
Charles Dickens
,
Oliver Twist
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
Charles Dickens
,
Nicholas Nickleby
“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
“if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”
Charles Dickens
,
The Old Curiosity Shop
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.”
Charles Dickens
,
David Copperfield
“Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh.”
Charles Dickens
,
A Christmas Carol
“There is prodigious strength . . . in sorrow and despair.”
Charles Dickens
,
A Tale of Two Cities
“think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
“Gradually, he fell into that deep tranquil sleep which ease from recent suffering alone imparts; that calm and peaceful rest which it is pain to wake from. Who, if this were death, would be roused again to all the struggles and turmoils of life;...”
Charles Dickens
,
Oliver Twist
“And if it's proud to have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts . . . she is proud.”
Charles Dickens
,
Our Mutual Friend
“I know enough of the world now, to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything; but it is matter of some surprise to me, even now, that I can have been so easily thrown away at such an age.”
Charles Dickens
,
David Copperfield
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
Charles Dickens
,
A Christmas Carol
“Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?”
Charles Dickens
,
Our Mutual Friend
“no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused!”
Charles Dickens
,
A Christmas Carol
“I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.”
Charles Dickens
,
David Copperfield
“I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
“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...”
Charles Dickens
,
A Tale of Two Cities
“Love her, love her, love her! If she favors you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces,—and as it gets older and stronger it will tear deeper,—love her, love her, love her!”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.”
Charles Dickens
,
A Christmas Carol
“Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.”
Charles Dickens
,
Nicholas Nickleby
“The sun—the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man—burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and...”
Charles Dickens
,
Oliver Twist
“Oh! the suspense, the fearful, acute suspense, of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance!”
Charles Dickens
,
Oliver Twist
“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”
Charles Dickens
,
Our Mutual Friend
“No one is useless in this world . . . who lightens the burden of it for any one else.”
Charles Dickens
,
Our Mutual Friend
“Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief itself arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.”
Charles Dickens
,
Oliver Twist
“They seemed so like the rats he had seen outside.”
Charles Dickens
,
Oliver Twist
“Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.”
Charles Dickens
,
A Tale of Two Cities
“Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
“My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”
Charles Dickens
,
David Copperfield
“The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
“There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.”
Charles Dickens
,
David Copperfield
“suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
“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...”
Charles Dickens
,
A Tale of Two Cities
“it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.”
Charles Dickens
,
A Christmas Carol
“I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time”
Charles Dickens
,
David Copperfield
“A multitude of people, and yet a solitude!”
Charles Dickens
,
A Tale of Two Cities
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
“Some people are nobody's enemies but their own, yer know.”
Charles Dickens
,
Oliver Twist
“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
,
David Copperfield
“I'll tell you . . . what real love is. 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
,
Great Expectations
“the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile”
Charles Dickens
,
A Christmas Carol
“I really felt ashamed to take advantage of the ingenuousness or grateful feeling of the child for the purpose of gratifying my curiosity. I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.”
Charles Dickens
,
The Old Curiosity Shop
“trifles make the sum of life.”
Charles Dickens
,
David Copperfield
“The great principle of out-of-door relief is, to give the paupers exactly what they don't want; and then they get tired of coming.”
Charles Dickens
,
Oliver Twist
“the cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.”
Charles Dickens
,
A Tale of Two Cities
“O Miss Manette, when the little picture of a happy father's face looks up in yours, when you see your own bright beauty springing up anew at your feet, think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside...”
Charles Dickens
,
A Tale of Two Cities
“It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home. There may be black ingratitude in the thing, and the punishment may be retributive and well deserved; but that it is a miserable thing, I can testify.”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
“Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.”
Charles Dickens
,
A Tale of Two Cities
“Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then.”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
“I am consequently proud—proud as Lucifer.”
Charles Dickens
,
Martin Chuzzlewit
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