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| Barnaby Rudge Quotes | No. | Quotation | Last Name | First Name | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated. | Dickens | Charles | Barnaby Rudge |
| 2 | 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. . . . | Dickens | Charles | Barnaby Rudge |
| 3 | . . . she better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than herself. | Dickens | Charles | Barnaby Rudge |
| 4 | Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in ful | Dickens | Charles | Barnaby Rudge |
| 5 | . . . the shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed. | Dickens | Charles | Barnaby Rudge |
| 6 | But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window, as through the narrow crevice of one good deed in a murky life of guilt, the face of Heaven shone bright and merciful. He ra | Dickens | Charles | Barnaby Rudge |
| 7 | The man who now confronted Gashford, was a squat, thickset personage, with a low, retreating forehead, a coarse shock head of hair, and eyes so small and near together, that his broken nose alone seemed to prevent their meeting and fusing into one of the | Dickens | Charles | Barnaby Rudge |
| 8 | Indeed the worthy housewife was of such a capricious nature, that she not only attained a higher pitch of genius than Macbeth, in respect of her ability to be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral in an instant, but would sometimes ring t | Dickens | Charles | Barnaby Rudge |
| 9 | Mrs. Varden was a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper--a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable. | Dickens | Charles | Barnaby Rudge |
| 10 | One thing about this face was very strange and startling. You could not look upon it in its most cheerful mood without feeling that it had some extraordinary capacity of expressing terror. It was not on the surface. It was in no one feature that it linger | Dickens | Charles | Barnaby Rudge |
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