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Charles Dickens Quotes|Quotes said by Charles Dickens

  • Charles Dickens Quote #1

    *I love climbing mountains in all fields (Whatever was this fields).
    *I love tranquility and it is more for me precious than money.
    *Honesty is a few valuable nowadays.
    after willing of God and Step by step with Concentration i will achieve What I want to.

  • Charles Dickens Quote #2

    . . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . .

  • Charles Dickens Quote #3

    . . . such a rush immediately ensued that she with laughing face and plundered dress was borne towards it the centre of a flushed and boisterous group, just in time to greet the father, who came home attended by a man laden with Christmas toys and presents. Then the shouting and the struggling, and the onslaught that was made on the defenceless porter! Then scaling him, with chairs for ladders, to dive into his pockets, despoil him of brown-paper parcels, hold on tight by his cravat, hug him round the neck, pommel his back and kick his legs in irrepressible affection! The shouts of wonder and delight with wich the development of every package was received! The terrible announcement that the baby had been taken in the act of putting a doll's frying-pan into his mouth, and was more than suspected of having swallowed a fictitious turkey, glued on a wooden platter! The immense relief of finding this false alarm! The joy, and gratitude, and ecstasy! They are indescribable alike. It is enough that by degrees the children and their emotions got out of the parlor, and by one stair at a time up to the top of the house; where they went to bed, and so subsided.

  • Charles Dickens Quote #4

    ...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

  • Charles Dickens Quote #5

    ...he walked up and down through life.

  • Charles Dickens Quote #6

    ...I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

  • Charles Dickens Quote #7

    ...lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to the same.

  • Charles Dickens Quote #8

    ?And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

  • Charles Dickens Quote #9

    [...] certain it is that minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort, and like them, are often successfully cured by remedies in themselves very nauseous and unpalatable.

  • Charles Dickens Quote #10

    [...] dropped his master's head upon the floor with a pretty loud crash, and then, without an effort to lift it up, gazed upon the bystanders, as if he had done something rather clever than otherwise.

  • Charles Dickens Quote #11

    [...] There are tales among us that you have sold yourself to the devil, and I know not what.'

    'We all have, have we not?' returned the stranger, looking up. 'If we were fewer in number, perhaps he would give better wages.

  • Charles Dickens Quote #12

    [Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

  • Charles Dickens Quote #13

    [S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

  • Charles Dickens Quote #14

    [S]ome score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be --- as here they are --- mistily engaged in one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slippery precedents, groping knee-deep in technicalities, running their goat-hair and horse-hair warded heads against walls of words, and making a pretence of equity with serious faces ....

  • Charles Dickens Quote #15

    [She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.

  • Charles Dickens Quote #16

    [T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

  • Charles Dickens Quote #17

    [W]e talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannise over them too; we are fond of having a large superfluous establishment of words to wait upon us on great occasions; we think it looks important, and sounds well. As we are not particular about the meaning of our liveries on state occassions, if they be but fine and numerous enough, so, the meaning or necessity of our words is a secondary consideration, if there be but a great parade of them. And as individuals get into trouble by making too great a show of liveries, or as slaves when they are too numerous rise against their masters, so I think I could mention a nation that has got into many great difficulties, and will get into many greater, from maintaining too large a retinue of words.

  • Charles Dickens Quote #18

    —Pues bien; lo que yo quiero son realidades. No les enseñéis a estos muchachos y muchachas otra cosa que realidades. En la vida sólo son necesarias las realidades.

  • Charles Dickens Quote #19

    A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what
    the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general
    resemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf.
    Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion.

  • Charles Dickens Quote #20

    A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since. I have known it very fashionable indeed. I have seen it displayed with such success, that I have encountered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might as well have been born caterpillars.

  • Charles Dickens Quote #21

    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 Quote #22

    A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

  • Charles Dickens Quote #23

    A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

  • Charles Dickens Quote #24

    A man may live to be as old as Methuselah,’ said Mr. Filer, ‘and may labour all his life for the benefit of such people as those; and may heap up facts on figures, facts on figures, facts on figures, mountains high and dry; and he can no more hope to persuade ’em that they have no right or business to be married, than he can hope to persuade ’em that they have no earthly right or business to be born. And that we know they haven’t. We reduced it to a mathematical certainty long ago!

  • Charles Dickens Quote #25

    A man would die tonight of lying out on the marshes, I thought. And then I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pitty in all the glittering multitude.

  • Charles Dickens Quote #26

    A new heart for a New Year, always!

  • Charles Dickens Quote #27

    After that, he drank all the rest of the sherry, and Mr. Hubble drank the port, and the two talked (which I have since observed to be customary in such cases) as if they were of quite another race from the deceased, and were notoriously immortal.

  • Charles Dickens Quote #28

    All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

  • Charles Dickens Quote #29

    All this time I had never been able to consider my own situation, nor could I do so yet. I had not the power to attend to it. I was greatly dejected and distressed, but in an incoherent wholesale sort of way. As to forming any plan for the future, I could as soon have formed an elephant. When I opened the shutters and looked out at the wet wild morning, all of a leaden hue; when I walked from room to room; when I sat down again shivering, before the fire, waiting for my laundress to appear; I thought how miserable I was, but hardly knew why, or how long I had been so, or on what day of the week I made the reflection, or even who I was that made it.

  • Charles Dickens Quote #30

    All was over in a moment. I had fulfilled my destiny. I was a captive and a slave. I loved Dora Spenlow to distraction! She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I don't know what she was - anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink; no looking down, or looking back; I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.

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