Top 24 Dorrit's Quotes
#1. This history must sometimes see with Little Dorrit's eyes, and shall begin that course by seeing him.
Charles Dickens
#2. It was an instinctive testimony to Little Dorrit's worth and difference from all the rest, that the poor young fellow honoured and loved her for being simply what she was.
Charles Dickens
#3. Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.
Neal A. Maxwell
#4. I peeled off my right sleeve, trying not to irritate the wound any more than necessary. My hands were trembling, either from fear or adrenaline, and just bending my arm made me want to scream. I bit my lips together to keep the sound in, but even with that my muffled whimpers escaped into the night.
Kiera Cass
#5. Overflowing with the milk of human kindness, the family had invited everyone they could think of, including people they cordially disliked.
Gerald Durrell
#6. People pay money to go in there and that row thrown at them? Could stick your head in a bucket and whack it with a stick for free ...
Charlie Fletcher
#7. "O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and me."
Charles Dickens
#8. His genius, during his earlier manhood, was of that exclusively agricultural character which applies itself to the cultivation of wild oats.
Charles Dickens
#9. Little Dorrit that she had not seen Mr F.'s Aunt so full of life and character for weeks; that she would find it necessary to
Charles Dickens
#10. After high school, I was going to move out to L.A. and try to pursue my dreams of acting. My parents said, 'That's fine. We support you, but you have to go to school,' which was fine because I'm a studious person anyway; I enjoy it.
Josie Loren
#11. If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.
Luigi Pirandello
#12. Color has always been important to me, ever since my first deluxe box of Crayolas.
Susan Vreeland
#13. If you truly want to succeed, you have to stay humble - humble or crumble - because it can all go away in the blink of an eye.
Raven Goodwin
#14. When you see things through your heart, there is no right or wrong, true or false, only there is love to share.
Debasish Mridha
#15. I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.
Osbert Sitwell
#16. People are created in God's image. Homosexuality is an identity adopted through societal factors. It's an identity disorder.
Christine O'Donnell
#17. Dear Little Dorrit, it is not my imprisonment only that will soon be over. This sacrifice of you must be ended. We must learn to part again, and to take our different ways so wide asunder. You have not forgotten what we said together, when you came back?
Charles Dickens
#18. All of which Flora said with so much headlong vehemence as if she really believed it. There is not much doubt that when she worked herself into full mermaid condition, she did actually believe whatever she said in it.
Charles Dickens
#19. History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
John Berger
#20. People speak generally of a plain style and an elaborate style. I think this is wrong, because what is important ... is that poetry should be living ...
Jorge Luis Borges
#21. He had a certain air of being a handsome man
which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man
which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.
Charles Dickens
#22. I did 'Little Dorrit' a few years ago; I really love doing period dramas. It's stuff like that I really enjoy watching.
Arthur Darvill
#24. Mother: "I couldn't stand his friends from medical school. They were all pompous and awkward. They knew how to memorize but they didn't know how to be human. Rochester was cold and ugly. Everything there was the same color. I was incredibly lonely." She
Eula Biss
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