Tale Of Two Cities Quotes:

Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (2011). “A Tale of Two Cities Thrift Study Edition”, p.330, Courier Corporation

topic: Cities, Tombs, Tale Of Two Cities

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.277, Penguin

topic: Fire, Wind, Tale Of Two Cities

I have a bold plan to break from the Bloomberg years, and end the 'Tale of Two Cities' by providing real opportunity to all New Yorkers, no matter where they live.

- Bill de Blasio

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Real, Opportunity, Years, 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

source: A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 1 (1859)

topic: Spring, Winter, Light, Incredulity, Great Literature

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (2015). “British Classics: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)”, p.150, The Planet

topic: Believe, Soul, Triumph, Tale Of Two Cities

Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.

- Charles Dickens

source: 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].”

topic: Dog, Attitude, Philosophy, Repression, Tale Of Two Cities

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Love, Family, Happiness, Managing Time, Efforts Wasted

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

- Charles Dickens

topic: Profound, Personality, Psychology, Tale Of Two Cities, Reflecting Upon

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (2015). “British Classics: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)”, p.150, The Planet

topic: Long, Vengeance, Retribution, Tale Of Two Cities

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Knowing, Psychology, May, Tale Of Two Cities

Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well-thousands of acres of land-a whole province of France-all France itself-lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hairbreadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Nature, Stars, Lying, Twinkling, Rays Of Light

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out...

- Charles Dickens

topic: Beautiful, Struggle, Years, Dark Night, Beautiful City

I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul...Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Dream, Fighting, Cities, Shaking, Tale Of Two Cities

Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Love, Thinking, Men, Love Sacrifice, Love And Sacrifice

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Inspirational, Death, Book, Famous Last Words, Dark Night

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (2015). “British Classics: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)”, p.87, The Planet

topic: People, Solitude, Multitudes, Tale Of Two Cities

You have been the last dream of my soul.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Dream, Soul, Lasts, Finality, 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

topic: Exercise, Men, Sight, Blight, Resigning

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Beautiful, Heart, Cities, Tale Of Two Cities

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Wine, Paris, Six, Carts, Guillotine

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Sorrow, Despair, Prodigious, Tale Of Two Cities

A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Dream, Wish, Inspired, Tale Of Two Cities, Sleepers

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

- Charles Dickens

topic: Liberty, Lasts, Fraternity, Guillotine, Tale Of Two Cities

You anticipate what I would say, though you cannot know how earnestly I say it, how earnestly I feel it, without knowing my secret heart, and the hopes and fears and anxieties with which it has long been laden. Dear Doctor Manette, I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Love, Daughter, Heart, Tale Of Two Cities

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens, General Press (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution”, p.307, GENERAL PRESS

topic: Effort, Cost, Littles, Tale Of Two Cities

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Heart, Faithful, World, Faithful Service, Tale Of Two Cities

Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities”, p.114, Xist Publishing

topic: Lows, Involuntary, Homage, Tale Of Two Cities

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens, Gillen D'Arcy Wood (2003). “A Tale of Two Cities”, p.385, Barnes & Noble

topic: Cities, Mind, Vision, Sanguine, Tale Of Two Cities

Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens, General Press (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution”, p.339, GENERAL PRESS

topic: Crush, Yield, Humanity, Tale Of Two Cities

I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives. "Jerry, say that my answer was, 'RECALLED TO LIFE.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Echoes, Listening, Answers, Footsteps, Tale Of Two Cities

It is a long time,' repeated his wife; 'and when is it not a long time? Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.' 'It does not take a long time to strike a man with Lightning,' said Defarge. 'How long,' demanded madame, composedly, 'does it take to make and store the lightning? Tell me?

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.150, Penguin

topic: Men, Long, Wife, Tale Of Two Cities

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (1873). “Tale of Two Cities”, p.198

topic: Age, Way, Young, Tale Of Two Cities

Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well-thousands of acres of land-a whole province of France-all France itself-lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hairbreadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (2012). “A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)”, p.171, Top Five Books LLC

topic: Nature, Stars, Lying, Pure Water, Tale Of Two Cities

Oh, do you have A Tale of Two Cities?" "That silly thing? Men going around getting their heads chopped off for love? Ridiculus." Will unpeeled himself from the door and made his way toward Tessa where she stood by the bookshelves. He gestured expansively at the vast number of volumes all around him. "No, here you'll find all sorts of advice about how to chop off someone else's head if you need to; much more useful.

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Silly, Men, Doors, Bookshelves, Tale Of Two Cities

When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure.

- Dermot Healy

topic: Teacher, Cities, Two, Tale Of Two Cities

I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life...her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Life, Cities, Two, Trough, Tale Of Two Cities

I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I think A Tale of Two Cities was the first Dickens novel I read.

- George Brandis

topic: Reading, Thinking, Cities, Tale Of Two Cities