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Charles Dickens quotes

English Novelist, Writer February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870

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Again the mender of roads went through the whole performance; in which he ought to have been perfect by that time, seeing that it had been the ingallible resource and indispenable enternainment for his village during a whole year. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today...."
My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self."
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "A curious monomaniac,' said Eugene. 'The man seems to believe..."
A curious monomaniac,' said Eugene. 'The man seems to believe that everybody was acquainted with his mother! Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "There are many things which I might have derived good, by..."
There are many things which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "the earth was made for dombey and son to trade in and the sun..."
the earth was made for dombey and son to trade in and the sun and moon were made to give them light Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "Uriah gave a kind of snivel. I think to express sympathy."
Uriah gave a kind of snivel. I think to express sympathy. Charles Dickens
I was very glad afterwards to have had the interview; for, in her face and in her voice, and in her touch, she gave me the assurance, that suffering had been stronger than Miss Havisham's teaching, and had given her a heart to understand what my heart used to be. Charles Dickens
Indeed, as he eagerly sparkled at them from the cellarage before mentioned, he seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts, and prepared to blow them clean out of the regions of childhood at one discharge. He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the tender young imaginations that were to be stormed away. Charles Dickens
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time. Charles Dickens
The master of this shop was sitting at the door in his shirt-sleeves, smoking; and as there were a great many coats and pairs of trousers dangling from the low ceiling, and only two feeble candles burning inside to show what they were, I fancied that he looked like a man of a revengeful disposition, who had hung all his enemies, and was enjoying himself. Charles Dickens
Uncle Pumblechook: a large hard-breathing middle-aged slow man, with a mouth like a fish, dull staring eyes, and sandy hair standing upright on his head, so that he looked as if he had just been all but choked, and had that moment come to. Charles Dickens
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 of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city.... Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon and hanging in the misty clouds. Charles Dickens
The major characteristics discoverable by the stranger in Mr F.'s Aunt, were extreme severity and grim taciturnity; sometimes interrupted by a propensity to offer remarks in a deep warning voice, which, being totally uncalled for by anything said by anybody, and traceable to no association of ideas, confounded and terrified the Mind. Charles Dickens
He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten. Charles Dickens

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