Behinds Quotes by Charles Dickens

12 Behinds quotes by Charles Dickens

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Dickens loved to expose the undercurrents of Victorian society, and this short set shines a light on the concealed drives of his characters.

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One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

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We part with tender relations stretching far behind us, that never can be exactly renewed, and with others dawning - yet before…

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... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle…

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There was no wind; there was no passing shadow on the deep shade of the night; there was no noise. The city…

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The bright, frosty day declined as they walked and spoke together. The sun dipped in the river far behind them, and the…

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The night was dark, and a cold wind blew, driving the clouds, furiously and fast, before it. There was one black, gloomy…

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Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung…

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The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river…

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Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and…

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The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached.…

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As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen…

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As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow…

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There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

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I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly…

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A new heart for a New Year, always!

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“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the…

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“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.”

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There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.

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“evening, they began to think that although he could never hope to be an Englishman, still it would be hard to visit that affliction…

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“Besides which, all that I could have said of the Story to any purpose, I had endeavoured to say in it.”

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“The wheels rolled on, and rolled down by the Monument, and by the Tower; and by the Docks; down by Ratcliffe, and by Rotherhithe;…

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“The three customers pulled off their hats to Madame Defarge, with three flourishes. She acknowledged their homage by bending her head, and giving them…

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“What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and…

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I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for…

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“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.”

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