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Why, what I may think after dinner, returns Mr. Jobling, is one thing, my dear Guppy, and what I may think before dinner is another thing.

"Why, what I may think after dinner," returns Mr. Jobling, "is one thing, my dear Guppy, and what I may think before dinner is another thing."

Charles Dickens
Character, Thinking, Interesting
Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.164

Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?

Charles Dickens
War, Heart, Character
Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.301

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

Charles Dickens
Jobs, Character, Air
Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.333

Mr. Tulkinghorn, sitting in the twilight by the open window, enjoys his wine. As if it whispered to him of its fifty years of silence and seclusion, it shuts him up the closer. More impenetrable than ever, he sits, and drinks, and mellows as it were in secrecy, pondering at that twilight hour on all the mysteries he knows.

Charles Dickens
Twilight, Wine, Character
Charles Dickens (1858). “Bleak House ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.180

"I take my leave of you, Mr. Creakle, and all of you," said Mr. Mell, glancing round the room, and again patting me gently on the shoulders. "James Steerforth, the best wish I can leave you is that you may come to be ashamed of what you have done today. At present I would prefer to see you anything rather than a friend, to me, or to anyone in whom I feel an interest."

Charles Dickens
Character, Best Wishes, Interesting
Charles Dickens (2015). “David Copperfield: Classic English Literature”, p.96, 谷月社

Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much. Flora, whom he had left a lily, had become a peony; but that was not much. Flora, who had seemed enchanting in all she said and thought, was diffuse and silly. That was much. Flora, who had been spoiled and artless long ago, was determined to be spoiled and artless now. That was a fatal blow.

Charles Dickens
Silly, Character, Blow
Charles Dickens (1868). “Little Dorrit”, p.142, Kartindo.com

It was the momentary yielding of a nature that had been disappointed from the dawn of its perceptions, but had not quite given up all its hopeful yearnings yet.

Charles Dickens
Character, Interesting, Hopeful
CHARLES DICKENS (1867). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.21

She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.

Charles Dickens
Beautiful, Character, Interesting
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.6088, Delphi Classics

Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.

Charles Dickens
Country, Character, Men
Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.101

Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly.

Charles Dickens
Butterfly, Character, Interesting
Charles Dickens (1867). “Bleak House”, p.164

The haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place; he might have groped among old churches and tombs and deserted houses and gathered all the spoils with his own hands. There was nothing in the whole collection but was in keeping with himself nothing that looked older or more worn than he.

Charles Dickens
Character, Men, Hands
Charles Dickens (1841). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.40, B Times

He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidding, that to have had his company under the least repulsive circumstances, one would have wished him to be out of temper that he might only scowl.

Charles Dickens
Character, Voice, Interesting
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.2061, Delphi Classics

He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright; but their light was of Heaven, not earth.

Charles Dickens
Children, Character, Eye
Charles Dickens (1863). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.200

Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Communication, Expectations
Great Expectations ch. 18 (1861)

"Walter," she said, looking full upon him with her affectionate eyes, "like you, I hope for better things. I will pray for them, and believe that they will arrive."

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Believe, Eye
Charles Dickens (1858). “Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.162

Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Missing, Vices
Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne (1848). “Dombey and Son”, p.581

She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Trials, Loyal
Charles Dickens, Gillen D'Arcy Wood (2003). “A Tale of Two Cities”, p.434, Barnes & Noble

"Hope to the last!" said Newman, clapping him on the back. "Always hope; that's dear boy. Never leave off hoping; it don't answer. Do you mind me, Nick? it don't answer. Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you've done the most you could. But, don't leave off hoping, or it's of no use doing anything. Hope, hope, to the last!"

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Boys, Mind

"We will wait," answered little Alice, taking Nettie's hand in hers, and looking up to the sky, "we will wait - ever constant and true - till the times have got so changed as that everything helps us out, and nothing makes us ridiculous, and the fairies have come back. We will wait - ever constant and true - till we are eighty, ninety, or one hundred. And then the fairies will send US children, and we will help them out, poor pretty little creatures, if they pretend ever so much."

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Children, Hands
Charles Dickens (1871). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces”, p.516

" ... It is not my desire to wound the feelings of any person with whom I am connected in family bonds. I may be a hypocrite," said Mr. Pecksniff, cuttingly, "but I am not a brute."

Charles Dickens
Funny, Humorous, Hypocrite
Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.75

... Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one's glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one's nose.

Charles Dickens
Funny, Humorous, Wine
Charles Dickens (1861). “Great Expectations”, p.65

Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir.

Charles Dickens
Funny, Humorous, Dumb
Pickwick Papers ch. 25 (1837)

Man is but mortal: and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend. Mr. Pickwick gazed through his spectacles for an instant on the advancing mass, and then fairly turned his back and-we will not say fled; firstly, because it is an ignoble term, and, secondly, because Mr. Pickwick's figure was by no means adapted for that mode of retreat-he trotted away, at as quick a rate as his legs would convey him;.

Charles Dickens
Funny, Humorous, Mean
Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.31

... As to sleep, you know, I never sleep now. I might be a Watchman, except that I don't get any pay, and he's got nothing on his mind.

Charles Dickens
Funny, Humorous, Sleep
Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.417

... I had a latent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution - not for old associations' sake, I am afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very up-hill and down-hill, and very unlike any way in which any man in any natural circumstances of life or death ever expressed himself about anything.

Charles Dickens
Funny, Humorous, Men
Charles Dickens (2017). “THE GREATEST DICKENS CLASSICS (Illustrated Edition): Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, The Life of Dickens”, p.239, e-artnow

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