5L: The Victorian Age + Authors

The Victorian Age
Victorian Authors

Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
Biography
Biography and Complete Works of Dickens



Excerpts:
Great Expectations
Reading Dickens 


10 Favorite Quotes: 

1. Patience: "An idea, like a ghost ... must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself."
2.  Kindness: "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."
3. Clothes do not make the man: "Great men are seldom over scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire." (From The Pickwick Papers)
4. Being forthright: "Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart."
5. Justice: "If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers." (From The Old Curiosity Shop)
6. Too much of a good thing: "Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!" (From Dombey & Son)
7. Imperfection:  "I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me." (From Great Expectations)
8. Strangers:  "A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other." (From A Tale of Two Cities)
9. Don't put off tomorrow:  "Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!"
10. Joy of reunions:  "The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again." (From Nicholas Nickleby)