Tale Of Two Cities Quotes

I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life…her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing.

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

I have a bold plan to break from the Bloomberg years, and end the ‘Tale of Two Cities’ by providing real opportunity to all New Yorkers, no matter where they live.

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

I’m reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I’ve been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I think A Tale of Two Cities was the first Dickens novel I read.

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

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.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; – the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

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

Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.

You have been the last dream of my soul.

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

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

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

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