Long Quotes by Charles Dickens

“Yours is a long life to look back upon, sir?”

— Charles Dickens

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

— Charles Dickens

Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

— Charles Dickens

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I…

— Charles Dickens

It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances,…

— Charles Dickens

Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the…

— Charles Dickens

What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing…

— Charles Dickens

Love, however, is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory, and will thrive, for a…

— Charles Dickens

He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys,…

— Charles Dickens

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in…

— Charles Dickens

It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in…

— Charles Dickens

Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after…

— Charles Dickens

It is a long time,' repeated his wife; 'and when is it not a long time? Vengeance and retribution require a long…

— Charles Dickens

A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which…

— Charles Dickens

Long may it remain in this mixed world a question not easy of decision, which is the more beautiful evidence of the…

— Charles Dickens

Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was…

— Charles Dickens

... I feel certain that his tale is true. Feeling that certainty, I befriend him. As long as that certainty shall last,…

— Charles Dickens

The young woman who brought me acquainted with Captain Murderer had a fiendish enjoyment of my terrors, and used to begin, I…

— Charles Dickens

The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came…

— Charles Dickens

In this way they went on, and on, and on-in the language of the story-books-until at last the village lights appeared before…

— Charles Dickens

As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were…

— Charles Dickens

Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much. Flora, whom he…

— Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin, insisting that Bella should make tomorrow's expedition in the chariot, she went home in great grandeur. Mrs. Wilfer and Miss…

— Charles Dickens

Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred.…

— Charles Dickens

The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence…

— Charles Dickens

My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought…

— Charles Dickens

It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to…

— Charles Dickens

The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and…

— Charles Dickens

Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Let me look up from it -…

— Charles Dickens

Heaped on the floor were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings,…

— Charles Dickens

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers,…

— Charles Dickens

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind,…

— Charles Dickens

For a long time, no village girl would dress her hair or bosom with the sweetest flower from that field of death:…

— Charles Dickens

I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long…

— Charles Dickens

You anticipate what I would say, though you cannot know how earnestly I say it, how earnestly I feel it, without knowing…

— Charles Dickens

A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a…

— Charles Dickens

... when the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides…

— Charles Dickens

On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual…

— Charles Dickens

It is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature, that, when the heart is touched and softened by some tranquil happiness…

— Charles Dickens

There once was a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a…

— Charles Dickens