Charles Dickens Quotes

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• Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long…
• If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to…
• I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.
• The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.
• And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that…
• The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a…
• The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you
• This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.
• A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to the world!
• In love of home, the love of country has its rise.
• Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who…
• It was darkly rumoured that the butler, regarding him with favour such as that stern man had never shown before to mortal boy, had sometimes…
• "What is your best, your very best, ale a glass?" "Two pence halfpenny," says the landlord, "is the price of the Genuine Stunning Ale." "Then,"…
• Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.
• To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen…
• I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the…
• Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.
• What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never…
• Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a people so entirely…
• There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

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