--- title: "8 Corners Quotes By Charles Dickens" description: "8 Corners quotes by Charles Dickens. Plus more from Charles Dickens and more Corners sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d1/charles-dickens-34_beautiful_when-she-took-her-opposite-place-in-the_944563.jpg" --- > [When she took her opposite place in the carriage corner, the brightness in her face was so charming to behold, that on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/when-she-took-her-opposite-place-in-the-carriage-corner-the/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d1/charles-dickens-34_beautiful_when-she-took-her-opposite-place-in-the_944563.jpg) > [We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/we-lawyers-are-always-curious-always-inquisitive-always-picking-up/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e33/charles-dickens-34_corners_we-lawyers-are-always-curious-always-inq_970539.jpg) > [I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason-but who would as soon love me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/i-cannot-help-it-reason-has-nothing-to-do-with-it-i-love-her-against/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f69/charles-dickens-34_beggar_i-cannot-help-it-reason-has-nothing-to-d_1219234.jpg) > ['I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/i-believe-mr-snitchey-said-alfred-there-are-quiet-victories-and/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91f/charles-dickens-34_achieve_i-believe-mr-snitchey-said-alfred-there_1266457.jpg) > [The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-very-dogs-were-all-asleep-and-the-flies-drunk-with-moist-sugar-in/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf3/charles-dickens-34_corners_the-very-dogs-were-all-asleep-and-the-fl_2019907.jpg) > [Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/dombey-sat-in-the-corner-of-the-darkened-room-in-the-great-arm-chair/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f30/charles-dickens-34_arms_dombey-sat-in-the-corner-of-the-darkened_2137676.jpg) > [There is something indefinably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/there-is-something-indefinably-keen-and-wan-about-her-anatomy-and-she-2/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2d/charles-dickens-34_adornment_there-is-something-indefinably-keen-and_2624925.jpg) > [I don't remember forms or faces now, but I know the girl was beautiful. I know she was; for in the bright…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/i-don-t-remember-forms-or-faces-now-but-i-know-the-girl-was-beautiful/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d30/charles-dickens-34_beautiful_i-don-t-remember-forms-or-faces-now-but_2774628.jpg) ## Other authors on Corners ## More by Charles Dickens > [“All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/all-other-swindlers-upon-earth-are-nothing-to-the-self-swindlers-and/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/arthur-gride-whose-bleared-eyes-gloated-only-over-the-outward/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/there-can-be-no-disparity-in-marriage-like-unsuitability-of-mind-and/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/i-have-tried-to-resign-myself-and-to-console-myself-and-that-i-hope-i/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [A new heart for a New Year, always!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/a-new-heart-for-a-new-year-always/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-suspense-the-fearful-acute-suspense-of-standing-idly-by-while-the/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/mrs-joe-was-a-very-clean-housekeeper-but-had-an-exquisite-art-of/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/there-seems-a-magic-in-the-very-name-of-christmas/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“evening, they began to think that although he could never hope to be an Englishman, still it would be hard to visit that affliction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/evening-they-began-to-think-that-although-he-could-never-hope-to-be/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“Besides which, all that I could have said of the Story to any purpose, I had endeavoured to say in it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/besides-which-all-that-i-could-have-said-of-the-story-to-any-purpose/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“The wheels rolled on, and rolled down by the Monument, and by the Tower; and by the Docks; down by Ratcliffe, and by Rotherhithe;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-wheels-rolled-on-and-rolled-down-by-the-monument-and-by-the-tower/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“The three customers pulled off their hats to Madame Defarge, with three flourishes. She acknowledged their homage by bending her head, and giving them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-three-customers-pulled-off-their-hats-to-madame-defarge-with/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/what-a-situation-cried-miss-squeers-what-is-the-reason-that-men-fall/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/i-admire-machinery-as-much-is-any-man-and-am-as-thankful-to-it-as-any/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/mr-pickwick-was-a-philosopher-but-philosophers-are-only-men-in-armour/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/corners/charles-dickens/#itemlist", "name": "8 Corners Quotes By Charles Dickens", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When she took her opposite place in the carriage corner, the brightness in her face was so charming to behold, that on her exclaiming, \"What beautiful stars and what a glorious night!\" the Secretary said \"Yes,\" but seemed to prefer to see the night and the stars in the light of her lovely little countenance, to looking out of window.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Dickens" }, "url": 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