Littles Quotes by Charles Dickens

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

— Charles Dickens

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

— Charles Dickens

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so.

— Charles Dickens

Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram.

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Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.

— Charles Dickens

-Why don't you cry again, you little wretch? -Because I'll never cry for you again.

— Charles Dickens

We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.

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Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats…

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You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is…

— Charles Dickens

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down…

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Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in…

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Being that rare sort of old girl that she receives Good to her arms without a hint that it might be Better…

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O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and…

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The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very…

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Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

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I don't like that sort of school... where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged... where I have never seen among the…

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He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls…

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There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories…

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He lived in chambers that had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering…

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Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm…

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I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud,…

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I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it…

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The rich, sweet smell of the hayricks rose to his chamber window; the hundred perfumes of the little flower-garden beneath scented the…

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There is something indefinably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners…

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If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am…

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And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his…

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Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth…

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I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little.…

— Charles Dickens

We will wait," answered little Alice, taking Nettie's hand in hers, and looking up to the sky, "we will wait - ever…

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It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too." Are you, Joe?" Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a…

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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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Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should…

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He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes…

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Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word…

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Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more.

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We went our several ways," said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to…

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I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all…

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Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a…

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And when you had made sure of the poor little fool," said my aunt - "God forgive me that I should call…

— Charles Dickens

At last, in the dead of the night, when the street was very still indeed, Little Dorrit laid the heavy head upon…

— Charles Dickens