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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
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David Copperfield
“Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?”
Charles Dickens
,
Our Mutual Friend
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
Charles Dickens
,
A Christmas Carol
“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
“Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.”
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
“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
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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
“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
“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
“They seemed so like the rats he had seen outside.”
Charles Dickens
,
Oliver Twist
“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
“No one is useless in this world . . . who lightens the burden of it for any one else.”
Charles Dickens
,
Our Mutual Friend
“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
“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
“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
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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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Some people are nobody's enemies but their own, yer know.”
Charles Dickens
,
Oliver Twist
“It is required of every man . . . that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.”
Charles Dickens
,
A Christmas Carol
“He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
“How slight a thing will disturb the equanimity of our frail minds!”
Charles Dickens
,
Oliver Twist
“Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.”
Charles Dickens
,
Oliver Twist
“Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.”
Charles Dickens
,
A Christmas Carol
“A person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.”
Charles Dickens
,
Little Dorrit
“our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.”
Charles Dickens
,
Great Expectations
“If I could work my will . . . every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.”
Charles Dickens
,
A Christmas Carol
“I landed in London on a wintry autumn evening. It was dark and raining, and I saw more fog and mud in a minute than I had seen in a year.”
Charles Dickens
,
David Copperfield
“He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very severely.”
Charles Dickens
,
Oliver Twist
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