Author of quotes: Charles Dickens. Page 4

How beautiful, how wonderful it seemed to me now every breath of wind, every flower, leaf and bylinka, every floating cloud, all smells, and everything in general in nature! That was my first reward for the disease. How little I lost if the whole wide world gave me so much joy!

When you always wait for something that never comes, it is so exhausting ...

... The most reasonable thing is not to do anything in the dark, not to participate in anything mysterious and mysterious, not to put your feet where you do not see the earth.

... In warmth you value eloquence better.

You can torment the heart of a strong person for many years in a row, but in the end it will suddenly affect.

... Education is not good for everyone.

... What is the use of living modestly when there is no money? You might as well have lived a luxury life.

Oh, this is such a widespread belief that any roughness will be "smoothed out"! Not in the fact that they are sharpened or polished, but that they will "flatten themselves out"! So to another madman, all things seem polished!

Can you hear, Joe? Neither you nor anyone cares at all that the great luminaries of the parliamentary sky for many years do not show you with their activities an example of moving forward without delay. This wise rule, this deeply philosophical prescription applies only to you, and it is the essence and completion of your ridiculous existence on earth. Pass, don't linger! You certainly shouldn't leave altogether, Joe, for the great luminaries don't agree to that, but... pass, don't linger!

... When you cook resin, try to make it as hot as possible, and when you pull the deck with a mop, then drive as if you have Davy Jones himself - that is, the devil - behind your back.

“It seems to me,” I said, “that this is a flaw inherent in any activity… even in life itself, unless it takes place in some extraordinary conditions.

The city is awakening; the huge top is already running and will spin and spin all day; people who have interrupted their studies for several hours begin to read and write again - no one knows why.

After all, you cannot recognize a person properly until you test him.

Constancy in love is beautiful, but it has no meaning, it is nothing without constancy in any work.