6 Charles Dickens Quotes on War

Charles Dickens quotes on war

38. How can you capture the sympathies of the audience unless you have a small man, fighting against a bigger one?

55. And you'd find your father rather a tough customer in argeyment, Joe, if anybody was to try and tackle him.

59. 'There are strings,' said Mr Tappertit, flourishing his bread-and- cheese knife in the air, 'in the human heart that had better not be wibrated. That's what's the matter.'

92. Let sleeping dogs lie - who wants to rouse 'em?

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127. Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people we most despise.

142. The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.