Charles Dickens Quotes, Twilight Quotes, Wine Quotes

Mr. Tulkinghorn, sitting in the twilight by the open window, enjoys his wine. As if it whispered to him of its fifty years of silence and seclusion, it shuts him up the closer. More impenetrable than ever, he sits, and drinks, and mellows as it were in secrecy, pondering at that twilight hour on all the mysteries he knows.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Twilight Quotes , Wine Quotes

We must scrunch or be scrunched.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes

Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Strong Quotes , Mean Quotes

A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since. I have known it very fashionable indeed. I have seen it displayed with such success, that I have encountered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might as well have been born caterpillars.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Passion Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn't paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows - they leap in like sugary ninjas

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Fitness Quotes , Attention Quotes

You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Fall Quotes , Passion Quotes

"Walter," she said, looking full upon him with her affectionate eyes, "like you, I hope for better things. I will pray for them, and believe that they will arrive."

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Believe Quotes

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , People Quotes , Expectations Quotes

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Love Quotes , Spiritual Quotes

Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Girl Quotes , Hard Times Quotes

The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Interesting Quotes

It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Funny Quotes , Children Quotes

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Sorry Quotes , Rain Quotes

It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Men Quotes

Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Sports Quotes , Dream Quotes

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Caring Quotes , Clouds Quotes

"The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts - in short," said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, "they are weaned..."

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Funny Quotes , Humorous Quotes

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Stories Quotes , Wonderful Quotes

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , May Quotes , Oppression Quotes

A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Funny Quotes , Humorous Quotes