| 81 Famous Quotes by Charles Dickens
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“"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass in a broken voice,
"it was the salmon."”
Wine and spirits Quotes Source: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (ch. VIII)
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“He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely
considered him a humbug in a Pickwickian point of view.”
Sense Quotes Source: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (ch. I)
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“The next time you go out to a smoking party, young feller, fill
your pipe with that 'ere reflection.”
Reflection Quotes Source: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (ch. XVI)
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“Circumstances beyond my individual control.”
Circumstance Quotes Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield (ch. 20)
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“He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.”
Fate Quotes Source: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (ch. LXIV)
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“When found, make a note of.”
Journalism Quotes Source: Dombey and Son (ch. 15)
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“Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."”
Names Quotes Source: Oliver Twist (ch. 8)
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“The dodgerest of all the dodgers.”
Names Quotes Source: Our Mutual Friend (ch. XIII)
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“"Brooks of Sheffield": "'Somebody's sharp.' 'Who is?'" asked the
gentleman, laughing. I looked up quickly, being curious to know.
"Only Brooks of Sheffield," said Mr. Murdstone. I was glad to
find it was only Brooks of Sheffield; for at first I really
thought that it was I.”
Names Quotes Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield (ch. 2)
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“Called me wessel, Sammy--a wessel of wrath.”
Names Quotes Source: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (ch. 22)
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“The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.”
Morality Quotes Source: Dombey and Son (ch. XXIII)
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“Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral
standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.
What humanity own to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus
ranks for me higher than all the achievements the inquiring
constructive mind.”
Morality Quotes Source: Dombey and Son (ch. XXIII)
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“Morality is of the highest importance--but for us, not for God.”
Morality Quotes Source: Dombey and Son (ch. XXIII)
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“The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in
our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence
depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and
dignity to life.”
Morality Quotes Source: Dombey and Son (ch. XXIII)
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“The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral
relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have
become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can
be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great
moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary
citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes. . . . It is
they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while
their "betters" were derelict.”
Morality Quotes Source: Dombey and Son (ch. XXIII)
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“Jobling, there are chords in the human mind.”
Sympathy Quotes Source: Bleak House (ch. XX)
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“Oliver Twist has asked for more.”
Hunger Quotes Source: Oliver Twist (ch. II)
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“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear
to them except in the form of bread.”
Hunger Quotes Source: Oliver Twist (ch. II)
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“If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich
Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort of spring
rash.”
London Quotes Source: Greenwich Fair
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“Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the
copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A
smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each
other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the
pudding.”
Cookery Quotes Source: A Christmas Carol (stave three)
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“"And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison
in a prison."”
Prison Quotes Source: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (ch. XL)
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“I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going . . . let the
other be where he may.”
Humility Quotes Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield (vol. I, ch. XVII)
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“'Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be.”
Humility Quotes Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield (vol. I, ch. XVII)
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“I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should
stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.”
Literature Quotes Source: in a speech at a Liverpool Banquet
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“Some credit in being jolly.”
Merriment Quotes Source: The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (ch. V)
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