--- title: "6 Down and Quotes By Charles Dickens" description: "6 Down and quotes by Charles Dickens. Plus more from Charles Dickens and more Down and sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a5/charles-dickens-34_bent_before-i-go-he-said-and-paused-i-may-kis_648942.jpg" --- > [Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/before-i-go-he-said-and-paused-i-may-kiss-her-it-was-remembered/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a5/charles-dickens-34_bent_before-i-go-he-said-and-paused-i-may-kis_648942.jpg) > [Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/day-was-breaking-at-plashwater-weir-mill-lock-stars-were-yet-visible/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07f/charles-dickens-34_cold_day-was-breaking-at-plashwater-weir-mill_759104.jpg) > [Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/bleak-dark-and-piercing-cold-it-was-a-night-for-the-well-housed-and/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ffd/charles-dickens-34_bitter_bleak-dark-and-piercing-cold-it-was-a-ni_1336196.jpg) > [One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/one-great-blemish-in-the-popular-mind-of-america-and-the-prolific/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff8/charles-dickens-34_america_one-great-blemish-in-the-popular-mind-of_1415383.jpg) > [You have no idea what it is to have anybody wonderful fond of you, unless you have been got down and rolled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/you-have-no-idea-what-it-is-to-have-anybody-wonderful-fond-of-you/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eea/charles-dickens-34_down-and_you-have-no-idea-what-it-is-to-have-anyb_2250924.jpg) > [I go so far as to say, miss, morehover," proceeded Mr. Cruncher, with a most alarming tendency to hold forth as from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/i-go-so-far-as-to-say-miss-morehover-proceeded-mr-cruncher-with-a/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/656/charles-dickens-34_change_i-go-so-far-as-to-say-miss-morehover-pro_2527335.jpg) ## Other authors on Down and ## 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/down-and/charles-dickens/#itemlist", "name": "6 Down and Quotes By Charles Dickens", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Before I go,\" he said, and paused -- \"I may kiss her?\" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. 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