Charles Dickens Quotes

“women can always put things in fewest words.—Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

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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...”

― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies!”

― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

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“my heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope in life, beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

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“whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.”

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”

― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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“Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

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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

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“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

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“There is prodigious strength . . . in sorrow and despair.”

― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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