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Charles Dickens quotes

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

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Charles Dickens quote: "Meow says the cat , quack says the duck , Bow wow wow says the..."
Meow says the cat , quack says the duck , Bow wow wow says the dog ! Grrrr! Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "We need never be ashamed of our tears. For they are rain upon..."
We need never be ashamed of our tears. For they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts Charles Dickens
Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the..."
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. Charles Dickens
And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he might have been the child of a nobleman or a beggar;—it would have been hard for the haughtiest stranger to have fixed his station in society. But now he was enveloped in the old calico robes, that had grown yellow in the same service; he was badged and ticketed, and fell into his place at once—a parish child—the orphan of a workhouse—the humble,... Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "Then I'm sorry to say, I've eat your pie."
Then I'm sorry to say, I've eat your pie. Charles Dickens
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. Charles Dickens
I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor..."
He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's..."
Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out. Charles Dickens
He's a rum dog. Don't he look fierce at any strange cove that laughs or sings when he's in company!' pursued the Dodger. 'Won't he growl at all, when he hears a fiddle playing! And don't he hate other dogs as ain't of his breed! Oh, no!''He's an out-and-out Christian,' said Charley. Charles Dickens
...Mr. Wegg sits down on a box in front of the fire, and inhales a warm and comfortable smell which is not the smell of the shop. 'For that,' Mr. Wegg inwardly decides, as he takes a corrective sniff or two, 'is musty, leathery, feathery, cellary, gluey, gummy, and,' with another sniff, 'as it might be, strong of old pairs of bellows. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the..."
Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine! Charles Dickens
The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the..."
One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth. Charles Dickens

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