July 7, 2023: Twelve Charles Dickens Quotes
Too hot outside? Grab a cold drink, find a cool and relaxing spot indoors, and revisit some of your favorite Charles Dickens classics. Following are twelve Dickens quotes to get you in the mood.
“Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!” (Dombey and Son) —Charles Dickens
“Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.” (The Pickwick Papers) —Charles Dickens
“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.” (A Tale of Two Cities) —Charles Dickens
“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.” (Great Expectations) —Charles Dickens
“Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor.” (Barnaby Rudge) —Charles Dickens
“Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.” (Martin Chuzzlewit) —Charles Dickens
“It is said that the children of the very poor are not brought up, but dragged up.” (Bleak House) —Charles Dickens
“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 epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” (A Tale of Two Cities) —Charles Dickens
“There are times when ignorance is bliss indeed.” (The Pickwick Papers) —Charles Dickens
“It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.” (A Christmas Carol) —Charles Dickens
“Oh gracious, why wasn’t I born old and ugly?” (Barnaby Rudge) —Charles Dickens
“Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues — faith and hope.” (Nicholas Nickleby) —Charles Dickens
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