Taken Quotes by Charles Dickens

10 Taken quotes by Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens’s reflections on the notion of being taken appear in ten short excerpts. Though limited, they echo his classic narrative tone and the moral undercurrents he often explored.

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“have you taken leave of your senses”

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There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.

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“So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the…

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How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and,…

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The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you…

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Thus, it comes to pass, that a certain room in a certain old hall, where a certain bad lord, baronet, knight, or…

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Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by…

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That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their…

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A modest ring at the bell at length allayed her fears, and Miss Benton, hurrying into her own room and shutting herself…

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That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they never could tolerate the idea of their wives laying their…

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