Quotes on Tale Of Two Cities

I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.

A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives. "Jerry, say that my answer was, 'RECALLED TO LIFE.

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.

It is a long time,' repeated his wife; 'and when is it not a long time? Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.' 'It does not take a long time to strike a man with Lightning,' said Defarge. 'How long,' demanded madame, composedly, 'does it take to make and store the lightning? Tell me?

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.