| 81 Famous Quotes by Charles Dickens
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“Man blames fate for other accidents, but feels personally responsible when he makes a hole in one”
Accidents Quotes |
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“A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times”
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“Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last”
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“Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.”
Bravery Quotes |
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“A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!”
Christmas Quotes |
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“He would make a lovely corpse.”
Funerals Quotes |
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“A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!”
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“Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some”
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair . . . in short, the period was so far like the present period . . . .”
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“Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christ”
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“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”
Rest Quotes |
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“If you don't like the weather, wait a minute”
Weather Quotes |
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“Barkis is willin'!”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield (ch. I)
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“It's my girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to
it before her. Discipline must be maintained.”
Wives Quotes Source: Bleak House (ch. XXVII)
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“God bless us every one.”
Blessings Quotes Source: A Christmas Carol (stave 3)
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“With affection beaming in one eye and calculation shining out of
the other.”
Eyes Quotes Source: The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (ch. VIII)
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“Why then we should drop into poetry.”
Poetry Quotes Source: Our Mutual Friend (bk. I, ch. V)
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“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship;
and pass the rosy wine.”
Friendship Quotes Source: The Old Curiosity Ship (ch. VII)
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“What is the odds so long as the fire of souls is kindled at the
taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a
feather?”
Friendship Quotes Source: The Old Curiosity Shop (ch. II)
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“Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to
swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly observed to me, sitting
down on the foot of the bed, nursing his leg, "You know,
Trotwood, I don't want to swing a cat. I never do swing a cat.
Therefore what does that signify to me?"”
Cats Quotes Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield (vol. II, ch. VI)
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“When I got up to the Peacock--where I found everybody drinking
hot punch in self-preservation.”
Drinking Quotes Source: The Holly Tree Inn
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“"Wery good power o' suction, Sammy," said Mr. Weller the
elder. . . . "You'd ha' made an uncommon fine oyster, Sammy, if
you'd been born in that station o' life."”
Drinking Quotes Source: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (ch. XXIII)
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“Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.”
Oysters Quotes Source: A Christmas Carol (stave 1)
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“It's a wery remarkable circumstance, sir," said Sam, "that
poverty and oysters always seem to go together."”
Oysters Quotes Source: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (ch. XXII)
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“Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.”
Accident Quotes Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield (ch. XXVIII)
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