Quotes & Sayings About Hard Times By Charles Dickens

Today, as a result of the policy of Macmillan's Government, Great Britain presents in the United Nations the face of Pecksniff and in Katanga the face of Gradgrind. — Conor Cruise O'Brien

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. — Charles Dickens

Your memory does me more honour than my insignificance deserves. — Charles Dickens

He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been, in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away, by the fervour of this reproach. — Charles Dickens

He spoke in hard and angry earnest, if a man ever did," replied the girl, shaking her head. "He is an earnest man when his hatred is up. I know many who do worse things; but I'd rather listen to them all a dozen times, than to that Monks once. — Charles Dickens

Now, what I want is, Facts ... Facts alone are wanted in life. — Charles Dickens