The best Quotes from Oliver Twist

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

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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

I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.

Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities

"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

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities

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

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

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

Charles Dickens in 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 in A Tale of Two Cities

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 in A Tale of Two Cities

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 in A Tale of Two Cities

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

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

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

Alec Guinness

Actors

Christmas? Shut up!

Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol - Von Ebenezer Scrooge

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

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

The FBI is now the prime functionary of the Deep State. The politicized leadership at the very top has turned it into a tool of surveillance and suppression of American citizens.

Kash Patel in Government Gangsters

FBI

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