Charles Dickens citáty

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„Vynaložte maximální úsilí. Vždycky je lepší, když víte, že jste udělali vše, co jste mohli.“

„Přátelství ženy k muži je slepá ulička, do které je vehnalo zklamání v lásce.“

„Užívejte si života. Mrtví budete dlouho.“

„Kdo z hrdosti nepřizná vlastní chyby, nemá hrdost.“

„Neptej se na nic a neuslyšíš žádnou lež..“

„Slzami se nenatáhnou ani hodinky, natož lidský život.“

„Ach ano, jsou v tomto životě dny, které stojí za život a stojí za smrt.“

„Nedostatek a nemoc jsou příliš všední v mnohých postaveních životních, aby zasluhovaly více povšimnutí, než se zpravidla dostává nejobyčejnějším měnivým příhodám v životě lidském.“

„Zbavte biskupa jeho mitry a obecního slouhu jeho třírohého klobouku - co z nich zbude? Lidé. Pouze lidé.“

„Chrabrost lidé vychvalují, ale nenávidí ji, prchají před ní.“

„V člověku je hluboce zakořeněna vášeň za něčím se honit.“

„Víc toužíme po tom, aby nás lidé pokládali za duchaplné než za dobré.“

„Ví Bůh, že se nikdy nemusíme stydět za slzy, neboť to je déšť na oslepující prach země, který pokrývá naše tvrdá srdce.“

„Budu slavit Vánoce ve svém srdci a snažit se je tam udržet celý rok.“

„Není důležité to, co můžeme udělat, ale to, co musíme udělat.“

„Nikdo není zbytečný na tomto světě, kdo ulehčuje břemeno jiných.“

„Vše, co stojí za to, aby bylo vykonáno, stojí za to, aby bylo vykonáno dobře.“

„Lichocením je zpravidla vyjádřeno podceňování.“

„Dobrý trénink je vždycky žádoucí, ať už se jede dostih o místo, o pořadí nebo o absolutní vítězství.“

„Láska a nenávist jako noha nohu doplňuje, aby byl možný pohyb, jsouce obě poslušny jedné vůle.“

„Když utlačujeme a utiskujeme své bližní, kéž bychom se aspoň jednou v myšlenkách rozpomněli na nezvratnou jistotu, že každá vina vystoupí zvolna až k nebesům jako temný a těžký mrak, aby vylila na naši hlavu svou pomstu! - Oliver Twist“

„Svatba je věc, o které se dovoluje žertovat, ale konec konců při tom není velikého žertu…“

„Odolávám pomalému dotyku zmrzlých prstů, které procházejí po mé páteři.“

„Je mi jedno, jestli jsem rozpustilá dívka nebo Sfinga.“

„Kdybyste viděl moje nohy, když si sundám boty, vytvořil byste si představu o tom, co je to nevyžádaná náklonnost.“

„Nový zákon je tou naprosto nejlepší knihou, kterou svět kdy poznal a pozná.“

„Nikdo není na světě zbytečný, ulehčuje-li břemeno někomu jinému.“

„Nikdo není na světě zbytečný, ulehčuje-li břemeno někomu jinému.“

“Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.”

“(Carmine Crocco) In such a crowd, so numerous and composed of such heterogeneous elements, it might have appeared almost absurd to look for discipline; but perfect discipline there was, for, whatever his other qualities might be, Crocco most undoubtedly was a "ruler of men". His word in that band was law, and the punishment of disaffection was death.”

“That vague kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning.”

“You are a human boy, my young friend. A human boy. O glorious to be a human boy!… O running stream of sparkling joy To be a soaring human boy!”

“I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.”

“Minerva House … was "a finishing establishment for young ladies," where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.”

“She's the ornament of her sex.”

“in a private letter to letter to Emile de la Rue on 23 October 1857”

“Under an accumulation of staggerers, no man can be considered a free agent. No man knocks himself down; if his destiny knocks him down, his destiny must pick him up again.”

“In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.”

“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.”

“Well, every one for himself, and Providence for us all--as the elephant said when he danced among the chickens.”

“He had a cane, he had an eye-glass, he had a snuff-box, he had rings, he had wristbands, he had everything but any touch of nature; he was not like youth, he was not like age, he was not like anything in the world but a model of deportment.”

“My experience teaches me, Lady Dedlock, that most of the people I know would do far better to leave marriage alone. It is at the bottom of three fourths of their troubles.”

“If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.”

“Not to put too fine a point upon it.”

“The system here, is rigid, strict, and hopeless solitary confinement… I believe that very few men are capable of estimating the immense amount of torture and agony which this dreadful punishment, prolonged for years, inflicts upon the sufferers… I hold this slow and daily tampering with the mysteries of the brain, to be immeasurably worse than any torture of the body: and because its ghastly signs and tokens are not so palpable to the eye and sense of touch as scars upon the flesh; because its wounds are not upon the surface, and it extorts few cries that human ears can hear; therefore I the more denounce it, as a secret punishment which slumbering humanity is not roused up to stay”

“O let us love our occupations,
Bless the squire and his relations,
Live upon our daily rations,
And always know our proper stations.”

“It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.”

“[T]he evil of it is that it is a world wrapped up in too much jeweller’s cotton and fine wool, and cannot hear the rushing of the larger worlds, and cannot see them as they circle round the sun. It is a deadened world, and its growth is sometimes unhealthy for want of air.”

“I had been to see Macbeth at the theatre a night or two before and she reminded me of the faces rising out of the witches' cauldron.”

“The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer’s morning, is most striking even to the few whose unfortunate pursuits of pleasure, or scarcely less unfortunate pursuits of business, cause them to be well acquainted with the scene.  There is an air of cold, solitary desolation about the noiseless streets which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a busy, eager crowd, and over the quiet, closely-shut buildings, which throughout the day are swarming with life and bustle, that is very impressive.”

“Cows are my passion.”

“Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you have done the most you could.”

“She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I don’t know what she was - anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink; no looking down, or looking back; I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.”