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Charles Dickens Quotes
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With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing (Charles Dickens Quotes)
... when the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides to the fire, and sits down in the chair we have left there, wringing her hands (Charles Dickens Quotes)
An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music (Charles Dickens Quotes)
There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea (Charles Dickens Quotes)
You have no idea what it is to have anybody wonderful fond of you, unless you have been got down and rolled upon by the lonely feelings that I have mentioned as having once got the better of me (Charles Dickens Quotes)
Love, however, is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory, and will thrive, for a considerable time, on very slight and sparing food (Charles Dickens Quotes)
She better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than herself (Charles Dickens Quotes)
What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love! (Charles Dickens Quotes)
The citizen... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very little for any nobility but that of worth and manhood (Charles Dickens Quotes)
The more especially, as in my juvenile frankness, I took some credit to myself for being so confidential and felt that I was quite the patron of my two respectful entertainers (Charles Dickens Quotes)
... Herbert said of himself, with his eyes fixed on the fire, that he thought he must have committed a felony and forgotten the details of it, he felt so dejected and guilty (Charles Dickens Quotes)
Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart? (Charles Dickens Quotes)
It was the momentary yielding of a nature that had been disappointed from the dawn of its perceptions, but had not quite given up all its hopeful yearnings yet (Charles Dickens Quotes)
He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidding, that to have had his company under the least repulsive circumstances, one would have wished him to be out of temper that he might only scowl (Charles Dickens Quotes)
... The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it (Charles Dickens Quotes)
... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us (Charles Dickens Quotes)
I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for us. But it will never be a substitute for the face of a man, with his soul in it, encouraging another man to be brave and true (Charles Dickens Quotes)
A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange! (Charles Dickens Quotes)
... Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one’s glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one’s nose (Charles Dickens Quotes)
In particular, there was a butler in a blue coat and bright buttons, who gave quite a winey flavour to the table beer; he poured it out so superbly (Charles Dickens Quotes)
For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down (Charles Dickens Quotes)
The plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to put his foot where he cannot see the ground (Charles Dickens Quotes)
Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right (Charles Dickens Quotes)
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma’am, are plain people, and we don’t want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there’s always a straight way to everything (Charles Dickens Quotes)
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness (Charles Dickens Quotes)
When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others (Charles Dickens Quotes)
It’s not put into his head to be buried. It’s put into his head to be made useful. You hold your life on the condition that to the last you shall struggle hard for it. Every man holds a discovery on the same terms (Charles Dickens Quotes)
To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it (Charles Dickens Quotes)
Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them (Charles Dickens Quotes)
You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn (Charles Dickens Quotes)