--- title: "7 Fallen Quotes By Charles Dickens" description: "7 Fallen quotes by Charles Dickens. Plus more from Charles Dickens and more Fallen sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c74/charles-dickens-34_character_sir-returned-mrs-sparsit-i-cannot-say-th_934493.jpg" --- > [Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/sir-returned-mrs-sparsit-i-cannot-say-that-i-have-heard-him-precisely/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c74/charles-dickens-34_character_sir-returned-mrs-sparsit-i-cannot-say-th_934493.jpg) > [A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/a-blight-had-fallen-on-the-trees-and-shrubs-and-the-wind-at-length/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14d/charles-dickens-34_air_a-blight-had-fallen-on-the-trees-and-shr_1458537.jpg) > [From the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/from-the-days-when-it-was-always-summer-in-eden-to-these-days-when-it/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d8/charles-dickens-34_eden_from-the-days-when-it-was-always-summer_2608102.jpg) > [It was a very aged, ghostly place; the church had been built many hundreds of years ago, and had once had a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/it-was-a-very-aged-ghostly-place-the-church-had-been-built-many/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ea/charles-dickens-34_arches_it-was-a-very-aged-ghostly-place-the-chu_2702237.jpg) > [As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/as-i-said-just-now-the-world-has-gone-past-me-i-don-t-blame-it-but-i/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a4/charles-dickens-34_apprentice_as-i-said-just-now-the-world-has-gone-pa_2755340.jpg) > [There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/there-have-been-occasions-in-my-later-life-i-suppose-as-in-most-lives/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a61/charles-dickens-34_apprenticeship_there-have-been-occasions-in-my-later-li_2855012.jpg) > [Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/of-all-the-ruinous-and-desolate-places-my-uncle-had-ever-beheld-this/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/524/charles-dickens-34_broken_of-all-the-ruinous-and-desolate-places-m_3019201.jpg) ## Other authors on Fallen ## 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/fallen/charles-dickens/#itemlist", "name": "7 Fallen Quotes By Charles Dickens", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Sir,\" returned Mrs. Sparsit, \" I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement. 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