A Tale of Two Cities Quotes

“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

topic:love

“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

topic:love

“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

topic:life worth

“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

topic:happiness sun

“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

topic:freedom

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

― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

topic:strength sorrow despair

“A multitude of people, and yet a solitude!”

― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

topic:loneliness

“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

topic:darkness light care

“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.”

― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

topic:soul dreams

“second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.”

― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

topic:care

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