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Men and women Quotes by Charles Dickens

16 Men and women quotes by Charles Dickens

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Dickens never shied away from the social currents of his era, and his commentary on men and women carries his characteristic blend of wit and social critique. These passages reveal how he parsed the expectations and contradictions of Victorian gender life.

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Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born…

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I have always thought of Christmas as a good time; a kind, forgiving, generous, pleasant time; a time when men and women…

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“On inanimate nature, as on the men and women who cultivated it, a prevalent tendency towards an appearance of vegetating unwillingly—a dejected…

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

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“there are people (men and women both, unfortunately) who have no good in them—none. That there are people whom it is necessary…

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“But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its…

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“I do must decidedly object, and have a most invincible and powerful repugnance to that frequent reference to the Almighty in small…

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“There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say, 'Christmas among…

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“But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas-time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred…

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“I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the…

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I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in…

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“long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think…

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Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly…

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“There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,' returned the…

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“All the people within reach had suspended their business, or their idleness, to run to the spot and drink the wine. The…

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“My Dear Mrs Winter. (I had half a mind when I dipped my pen in the ink, to address you by your…

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There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

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I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly…

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A new heart for a New Year, always!

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“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the…

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“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.”

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There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.

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“evening, they began to think that although he could never hope to be an Englishman, still it would be hard to visit that affliction…

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“Besides which, all that I could have said of the Story to any purpose, I had endeavoured to say in it.”

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“The wheels rolled on, and rolled down by the Monument, and by the Tower; and by the Docks; down by Ratcliffe, and by Rotherhithe;…

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“The three customers pulled off their hats to Madame Defarge, with three flourishes. She acknowledged their homage by bending her head, and giving them…

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“What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and…

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I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for…

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“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.”

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