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People Quotes by Charles Dickens
- 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…
- 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…
- It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.
- I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy…
- The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.
- I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for…
- If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitous man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of…
- It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to…
- It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they…
- I believe the powers of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that…
- I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.
- If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
- Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
- When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
- May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
- Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to…
- It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were…
- He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head,…
- So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
- I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and…
- You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all…
- What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw…
- Fog everywhere. Fog up the river where it flows among green airs and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers…
- He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of…
- And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his daughter to his…
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