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Charles Dickens quotes

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

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Charles Dickens quote: "things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in..."
things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up Charles Dickens
A horse is a quadruped, and quadruped's latin for beast, as everybody that's gone through grammar knows, or else what's the use in having grammars at all? Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "she had grown up highly ornamental, but perfectly helpless and..."
...she had grown up highly ornamental, but perfectly helpless and useless. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "And Master--or Mister--Sloppy?' said the Secretary, in doubt..."
And Master--or Mister--Sloppy?' said the Secretary, in doubt whether he was man, boy, or what. Charles Dickens
What is the secret, my darling, of your being everything to all of us, as if there werre only one of us, yet never seeming to be hurried, or to have too much to do? -Darney to Lucie Charles Dickens
There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat. Charles Dickens
As to any sense of inequality, or youthfulness, or other difficulty in our way, little Em'ly and I had no such trouble, because we had no future. We made no more provision for growing older, than we did for growing younger. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "Every man thinks his own geese swans."
Every man thinks his own geese swans. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of..."
I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys. Charles Dickens
Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. Charles Dickens
Oh, but reasoning is so much worse than scolding!... I didn't marry to be reasoned with. If you meant to reason with such a poor little thing as I am, you ought to have told me so, you cruel boy! Charles Dickens
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs? Charles Dickens
It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was. Charles Dickens
a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come..."
Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on. Charles Dickens

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