Tale Of Two Cities Quotes Essay
Quotes From 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, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only” (Dickens 1).
“Keep where you are, because, if I should make a mistake, it could never be set right …show more content…
We have known their husbands and fathers laid in prison and kept from them, often enough? All our lives, we have seen our sister-women suffer in themselves and in their children, poverty, nakedness, hunger, thirst, sickness, misery, oppression and neglect of all kinds” (Dickens 256).
“Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind” (Dickens 355).
“I am the Resurrection and the Life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die” (Dickens 359).
“I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generation hence” (Dickens 359).
“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” (Dickens 360).
Quotes from Charles Dickens:
“A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self” (Brainy
“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, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only” (Dickens 1).
“Keep where you are, because, if I should make a mistake, it could never be set right …show more content…
We have known their husbands and fathers laid in prison and kept from them, often enough? All our lives, we have seen our sister-women suffer in themselves and in their children, poverty, nakedness, hunger, thirst, sickness, misery, oppression and neglect of all kinds” (Dickens 256).
“Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind” (Dickens 355).
“I am the Resurrection and the Life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die” (Dickens 359).
“I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generation hence” (Dickens 359).
“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” (Dickens 360).
Quotes from Charles Dickens:
“A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self” (Brainy