--- title: "8 Pursuit Quotes By Charles Dickens" description: "8 Pursuit quotes by Charles Dickens. Plus more from Charles Dickens and more Pursuit sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2e/charles-dickens-34_boys_it-would-have-been-cruel-in-miss-havisha_103874.jpg" --- > [It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/it-would-have-been-cruel-in-miss-havisham-horribly-cruel-to-practise/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2e/charles-dickens-34_boys_it-would-have-been-cruel-in-miss-havisha_103874.jpg) > [There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/there-are-very-few-moments-in-a-man-s-existence-when-he-experiences/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ba/charles-dickens-34_charitable_there-are-very-few-moments-in-a-man-s-ex_248862.jpg) > [The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-wind-is-rushing-after-us-and-the-clouds-are-flying-after-us-and/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c80/charles-dickens-34_clouds_the-wind-is-rushing-after-us-and-the-clo_890483.jpg) > [They whirled past the dark trees, as feathers would be swept before a hurricane. Houses, gates, churches, hay-stacks, objects of every kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/they-whirled-past-the-dark-trees-as-feathers-would-be-swept-before-a/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a93/charles-dickens-34_church_they-whirled-past-the-dark-trees-as-feat_2288877.jpg) > [Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/indeed-it-may-be-laid-down-as-a-general-principle-that-the-more/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76a/charles-dickens-34_amount_indeed-it-may-be-laid-down-as-a-general_2508526.jpg) > [The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer's morning, is most striking even to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-appearance-presented-by-the-streets-of-london-an-hour-before/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca2/charles-dickens-34_accustomed_the-appearance-presented-by-the-streets_2603326.jpg) > [I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/i-believe-no-satirist-could-breathe-this-air-if-another-juvenal-or/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/331/charles-dickens-34_air_i-believe-no-satirist-could-breathe-this_2987081.jpg) > [This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/this-is-the-even-handed-dealing-of-the-world-he-said-there-is-noth/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7cf/charles-dickens-34_money_this-is-the-even-handed-dealing-of-the-w_3180215.jpg) ## Other authors on Pursuit - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-jefferson-90435.jpg) Thomas Jefferson 17 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pursuit/thomas-jefferson/) - [Lailah Gifty Akita 17 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pursuit/lailah-gifty-akita/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 16 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pursuit/henry-david-thoreau/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-mahatma-gandhi-62675.jpg) Mahatma Gandhi 14 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pursuit/mahatma-gandhi/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pursuit/barack-obama/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-ayn-rand-15943.jpg) Ayn Rand 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pursuit/ayn-rand/) - [Samuel Johnson 9 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pursuit/samuel-johnson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-leo-tolstoy-55.jpg) Leo Tolstoy 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pursuit/leo-tolstoy/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pursuit/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-plato-75782.jpg) Plato 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pursuit/plato/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jerry-bridges-49058.jpg) Jerry Bridges 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pursuit/jerry-bridges/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-albert-einstein-10494.jpg) Albert Einstein 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pursuit/albert-einstein/) ## 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/pursuit/charles-dickens/#itemlist", "name": "8 Pursuit Quotes By Charles Dickens", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did. 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