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Charles Dickens quotes

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

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I never heerd...nor read of nor see in picters, any angel in tights and gaiters...but...he's a reg'lar thoroughbred angel for all that. Charles Dickens
Mr. Boffin, as if he were about to have his portrait painted, or to be electrified, or to be made a Freemason, or to be placed at any other solitary disadvantage, ascended the rostrum prepared for him. Charles Dickens
Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day! Charles Dickens
Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions..."
Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine. Charles Dickens
I believe that virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen,... even if Gargery and Boffin did not speak like gentlemen, they were gentlemen. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr...."
But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons."
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "Your day is done. Night is coming fast for you." - Nickolas..."
Your day is done. Night is coming fast for you." - Nickolas Nickleby Charles Dickens
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. Charles Dickens
With that, she pounced upon me, like an eagle on a lamb, and my face was squeezed into wooden bowls in sinks, and my head was put under taps of water-butts, and I was soaped, and kneaded, and towelled, and thumped, and harrowed, and rasped, until I really was quite beside myself. (I may here remark that I suppose myself to be better acquainted than any living authority, with the ridgy effect of a wedding-ring, passing unsympathetically over the human countenance.) Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques."
Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious..."
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts,..."
It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded. Charles Dickens
they're so fond of Liberty in this part of the globe, that they buy her and sell her and carry her to market with 'em. They've such a passion for Liberty, that they can't help taking liberties with her. Charles Dickens

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