Thinking Quotes by Charles Dickens

Them which is of other naturs thinks different.

— Charles Dickens

Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?

— Charles Dickens

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

— Charles Dickens

If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.

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And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing…

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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

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

— Charles Dickens

It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.

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Ecod, you may say what you like of my father, then, and so I give you leave," said Jonas. "I think it's…

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When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the…

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I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.

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I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were,…

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“I and my husband have enough to do to keep this wine-shop open, without thinking. All we think, here, is how to…

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And yet I love him. I love him so much and so dearly, that when I sometimes think my life may be…

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Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a…

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I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a…

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At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the…

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We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking…

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It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture…

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This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a…

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

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But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a…

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The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and…

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Ay," said the Captain, reverentially; "it's a almighty element. There's wonders in the deep, my pretty. Think on it when the winds…

— Charles Dickens

A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at…

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I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could…

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I don't quite recollect how many tumblers of whiskey toddy each man drank after supper; but this I know, that about one…

— Charles Dickens

All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the…

— Charles Dickens

Why, what I may think after dinner," returns Mr. Jobling, "is one thing, my dear Guppy, and what I may think before…

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I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the…

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and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the…

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When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have…

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It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it…

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Well, well!" said my aunt. "I only ask. I don't depreciate her. Poor little couple! And so you think you were formed…

— Charles Dickens

Her heart-is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or, better than that, die for…

— Charles Dickens

As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against…

— Charles Dickens

To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think…

— 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

The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of…

— Charles Dickens