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Charles Dickens quotes

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

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Calamity with us, is made an excuse for doing wrong. With them, it is erected into a reason for their doing right. This is really the justice of rich to poor, and I protest against it because it is so. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "until I almost thought he would gradually blow his whole being..."
until I almost thought he would gradually blow his whole being into the large hole at the top, and ooze away at the keys. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "She must have made Joe Gargery marry her by hand."
She must have made Joe Gargery marry her by hand. Charles Dickens
Invisible insects of diabolical activity swarm in this place. I am tickled and twitched all over. Mentally, I have now committed a burglary under the meanest circumstances, and the myrmidons of justice are at my heels. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "They'll not blame me. They'll not object to me. They'll not..."
They'll not blame me. They'll not object to me. They'll not mind what I do, if it's wrong. I'm only Mr. Dick. Charles Dickens
In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "How slight a thing will disturb the equanimity of our frail..."
How slight a thing will disturb the equanimity of our frail minds! Charles Dickens
Any capitalist . . . who had made sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, always professed to wonder why the sixty thousand nearest Hands didn't each make sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, and more or less reproached them every one for not accomplishing the little feat. What I did you can do. Why don't you go and do it? Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "She indulged in melancholy, that cheapest and most accessible..."
She indulged in melancholy, that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries... Charles Dickens
Come, then," returned the nephew gaily. "What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day"
My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day Charles Dickens
And I wondered when I peeped into one or two on the lower tiers, and saw the tied-up brown paper packets inside, whether the flower-seeds and bulbs ever wanted of a fine day to break out of those jails, and bloom. Charles Dickens
I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "What was the nameless shadow which again in that one instant..."
What was the nameless shadow which again in that one instant had passed? Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quote: "You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation."
You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation. Charles Dickens

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