Charles Dickens Quotes

“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

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“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—a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting...”

― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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“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

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“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

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“Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman”

― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

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“I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.”

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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“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

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