Charles Dickens quotes - page 2

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies. (Charles Dickens)
Change begets change. View quote
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It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand. View quote
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The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it. View quote
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The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. View quote
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Take nothing on its looks take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. View quote
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I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle. . . View quote
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Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas. View quote
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She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I don't know what she was - anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink no looking down, or looking back I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her. View quote
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Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true. View quote
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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. (Charles Dickens)
Money and goods are certainly the best of references. View quote
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It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. View quote
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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known. View quote
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We must scrunch or be scrunched. View quote
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My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest. View quote
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Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day. View quote
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I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. View quote
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Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises. View quote
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I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in this world here, where I find myself. And I tell you this, my friend, that there are people (men and women both, unfortunately) who have no good in them-none. That there are people whom it is necessary to detest without compromise. That there are people who must be dealt with as enemies of the human race. That there are people who have no human heart, and who must be crushed like savage beasts and cleared out of the way. View quote
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Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving HOW NOT TO DO IT. (Charles Dickens)
Grief never mended no broken bones, and as good people's wery scarce, what I says is, make the most on 'em. View quote
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I expect a judgment. Shortly. View quote
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So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. View quote
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He 's tough, ma'am, tough is J. B. tough and devilish sly. View quote
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