Charles Dickens Quotes

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

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• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

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• There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.

  

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• It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!

  

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• My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.

  

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• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

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• I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.

  

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• Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.

  

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• I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.

  

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• We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!

  

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• If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

  

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• There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.

  

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• 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
  • Remember
  • Vices
  • Excess