Quotes by Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expe — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
But when society is the name for such hollow gentlemen and ladies...and when its breeding is professed indifference to e — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
...I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
My father had left a small collection of books in a little room upstairs, to which I had access (for it adjoined my own) — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
[W]e talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannise over them too; we are fond of having a large superfluous — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
His was not a lazy trustfulness that hoped, and did no more. — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
My sorrow may bear involuntary witness against you at the judgement Throne; but my angry thoughts or my reproaches never — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
The two things clearest in my mind were, that a remoteness had come upon the old Blunderstone life—which seemed to lie i — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
My school-days! The silent gliding on of my existence—the unseen, unfelt progress of my life—from childhood up to youth! — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
I have remembered Who wept for a parting between the living and the dead. — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
My impression is, after many years of consideration, that there never can have been anybody in the world who played wors — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
You deepen the injury. It is sufficient already. — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield