The best Quotes from A Tale of Two Cities

Mr. Lorry knew Miss Pross to be very jealous, but he also knew her by this time to be, beneath the service of her eccentricity, one of those unselfish creatures—found only among women—who will, for pure love and admiration, bind themselves willing slaves, to youth when they have lost it, to beauty that they never had, to accomplishments that they were never fortunate enough to gain, to bright hopes that never shone upon their own sombre lives.

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.

Charles Dickens

Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

Charles Dickens

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For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol

Children & Childhood Christmas

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.

Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol

Christmas

"Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change."

Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol

Life Fate & Destiny

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Charles Dickens

Heart Love

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

Charles Dickens

Crying & Tears

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Charles Dickens

Farewell & Goodbye

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol

Laughing & Smile

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own.

Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Charles Dickens

Heart Love

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol

Laughing & Smile

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Charles Dickens

Life Love Humor & Comedy

It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.

Charles Dickens

London

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Charles Dickens

Wisdom Mind vs. Heart

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Charles Dickens

Heart Selflessness Nurses

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused.

Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol

Remorse

Please, sir, I want some more.

Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist

It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.

Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Charles Dickens in Great Expectations

Spring March

Yes, on the ground.

Charles Dickens - auf Drängen seiner Schwägerin sich hinzulegen - letzte Worte

Last Words

Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.

Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist

In the little world in which children have their existence, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Charles Dickens

Children & Childhood Justice

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Charles Dickens in Great Expectations

Love declerations

So you're single? In Paris? Now I'm even more jealous. I mean, your life is croissants and sex.

Madeline Wheeler in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 3

Paris

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

Harry Houdini

Russia Paris

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

Baz Luhrmann

Paris Sydney

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Art Paris

Quagmire: "You got to help me. I'm looking for a little boy with red overalls and a yellow shirt."
French Man: "You are looking to buy or to rent?"
Quagmire: "What? No! God! How is Paris considered a classy city?"
French Man: "The buildings are beautiful, the people are trash."

Glenn Quagmire in Family Guy

Paris

Do you realize this city is laid out in circles? Like they deliberately designed it to confuse us.

Emily Cooper in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 2

Paris

Paris seems like a big city, but it's really just a small town.

Camille in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 4

Paris

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

David Bailey

London

I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river.

Louis Bayard - Mr. Timothy

London

I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

Boris Johnson

London Orlando

I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.

John Cleese

London

London. The beating heart of England.

Enola Holmes in Enola Holmes

London

England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly.

Daniel Radcliffe

London

Fashion needs fresh blood, and London is the most creative place for that.

Donatella Versace

Fashion Creativity London

Christmas? Shut up!

Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol - Von Ebenezer Scrooge

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.

Charles Dickens in Great Expectations

Crying & Tears

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

Charles Dickens in Great Expectations

Questions

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