Hard Times Charles Dickens Quotes & Sayings

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

The engineer performs many public functions from which he gets only philosophical satisfactions. Most people do not know it, but he is an economic and social force. — Herbert Hoover

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

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing? — Stendhal

It's been perfect. I can still ride a subway and work with great people. I can't imagine being Julia Roberts. I don't have the fortitude to withstand that kind of attention. — Jennifer Beals

Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people. — Carol Rifka Brunt

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

A song." I said aloud. "What?" "The whole time Adam and I were together, he never wrote a song for me." Vera looked like she was trying to think of an appropriate response to such a stupid desire. "He was a drummer. You hate it when drummers sing. — Tiffanie DeBartolo