Favorite Dickens quotes?

I picked a few, they’re all from my favorite book of his. (A Tale of Two Cities)

“You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer. Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.”

” . . . tell Wind and Fire where to stop,” returned madame; “but don’t tell me.”

“The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, these two children of the Universal Mother, else so wide apart and differing, have come together on the dark highway, to repair home together, and to rest in her bosom.”

“He lowered the window, and looked out at the rising sun. There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon it where it had been left last night when the horses were unyoked; beyond, a quiet coppice-wood, in which many leaves of burning red and golden yellow still remained upon the trees. Though the earth was cold and wet, the sky was clear, and the sun rose bright, placid, and beautiful.”

And last, but certainly not least:

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.”

I consider many of the strains from Dickens’s books are ‘quotations’… One of my favorite is “Control your appetites, my dears, and you’ve got conquered human nature”. from Nicholas Nickleby. From Tale of Two Cities , the primary and the final strains of the unconventional. “It was once the pleasant of instances, it was once the worst of instances…” and ” “It is a a ways, a ways bigger factor that I do, than I have ever performed…” There are extra, which refuse to come back into my brain proper now. PS: This quote of yours, strikes a chord in my memory (for no designated motive) of a quote from David Copperfield, useful and quirky – “Barkis is inclined!” TW K

Here are some sites you might like. (Remove all spaces from links)

http://www. quotationspage.com/ quotes/Charles_Dickens

http://www. perryweb.com/ Dickens/ quote_main.shtml

http://www. giga-usa.com/ quotes/authors/ charles_dickens_a003.htm

My favorites:

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”

“To a young heart everything is fun.”

— Charles Dickens

Best wishes to you!

A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange. A word in earnest is as good as a speach. It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

It’s no contest for me. It’s from Oliver Twist:

“If the Law supposes that,” said Mr. Bumble, “the Law is a ***, a idiot.”

Here is one I like:

“If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers. “