Charles Dickens Quotes

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  Never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

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  A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

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• I work very fast and steadily, and I don’t hardly ever notice that I’m working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.

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• 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.

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• So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

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• Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it’s blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.

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• Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

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• I want to be something so much worthier than the doll in the doll’s house.

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• A slap-up gal in a bang-up chariot.

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• Come up and be dead! Come up and be dead!

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• I think…that it is the best club in London.

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• Mr Podsnap settled that whatever he put behind him he put out of existence… ‘I don’t want to know about it; I don’t choose to discuss it; I don’t admit it !’

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• ‘Our Language,’ said Mr Podsnap, with a gracious consciousness of being always right, ‘is Difficult. Ours is a Copious Language, and Trying to Strangers. I will not Pursue my Question… It merely referred,’ Mr Podsnap explained, with a sense of meritorious proprietorship, ‘to our Constitution, Sir. We Englishmen are Very Proud of our Constitution, Sir. It Was Bestowed Upon Us By Providence. No Other Country is so Favoured as This Country.’

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• A certain institution in Mr Podsnap’s mind which he called ‘the young person’ may be considered to have been embodied in Miss Podsnap, his daughter… The question about everything was, would it bring a blush into the cheek of the young person?

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• Mr Podsnap was well to do, and stood very high in Mr Podsnap’s opinion.

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• These two ignorant and unpolished people had guided themselves so far on in their journey of life, by a religious sense of duty and desire to do right.

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• ‘Was you thinking at all of poetry?’ Mr Wegg inquired, musing. ‘Would it come dearer ?’ Mr Boffin asked. ‘It would come dearer,’ Mr Wegg returned. ‘For when a person comes to grind off poetry night after night, it is  but right he should expect to be paid for its weakening effect on his mind.’

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• Mrs Boffin…is a high flyer at Fashion.

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• A literary man—with a wooden leg—and all Print is open to him.

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• I listened with hadmiration amounting to haw.

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Charles Dickens (425)

Birth:	7th February, 1812
Death:	9th June, 1870
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Critic, Novelist, Playwright, Writer

About

Charles John Huffam Dickens was born in Landport, Hampshire, England. He was an English social critic, novelist, playwright and writer. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity. Dickens published more than a dozen major novels, a large number of short stories, including a number of Christmas-themed stories, a handful of plays, and several non-fiction books.

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