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Last Few Days for Dickens 200th Birthday Gear!
Don’t miss out! Our Dickens 200th Birthday Gear will only be available until December 31st. This great line of Dickens products includes t-shirts, bags, water bottles and more.
Two Things Quotes
Yesterday I added a new quote topic. It’s called two things as each of the quotes as the phrase “two things.” You can see all of the two things quotes here.
In the meantime here are some of my favorites:
There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink. ~ Penrod by Booth Tarkington
“My good fellow,” retorted Mr. Boffin, “you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don’t know. I’ve sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps.” ~ Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously. ~ The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Christmas Carol Video
Here’s a scene from my favorite version of A Christmas Carol. It’s the 1970 version starring Albert Finney.
We Could All Do With Some Hope
My thoughts and prayers are with the people of Newtown, Connecticut right now. Words like tragic and horrifying seem inadequate. Anyway, I thought we could all do with some hope right now.
I hope, or I could not live. ~ The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
From the death of each day’s hope another hope sprung up to live to-morrow. ~ The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep. ~ Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Christmas Quotes from Literature
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at my house. The tree is almost decorated. We’re sending Christmas cards out on Friday and the shopping is progressing nicely. All of this has put me in the holiday spirit. So I thought I’d share some of my favorite quotes from the LitQuotes Christmas quotations collection.
Heap on more wood!–the wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will,
We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
~ Marmion by Sir Walter Scott
It is, indeed, the season of regenerated feeling–the season for kindling, not merely the fire of hospitality in the hall, but the genial flame of charity in the heart.
~ Old Christmas by Washington Irving
“Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.”
~ Roast Beef, Medium by Edna Ferber
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!” ~ A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
LitQuotes Duo – Pimples of the Mind?
I had to share today’s LitQuotes Duo. If you’d like to see more of these, go to the daily quotes page. There’s a different one every day.
“Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth in strange eruptions.” ~ Henry IV, Part One by William Shakespeare
Certain it is that minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort, and like them, are often successfully cured by remedies in themselves very nauseous and unpalatable. ~ Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
Can people suffer from pimples of the mind?
Last Month for Dickens Bicentenary Gifts and Gear
Don’t miss out! Our Dickens 200th Birthday Gear will only be available through the end of 2012. This great line of Dickens products includes t-shirts, bags, water bottles and more.
Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens
What a great year for books about Charles Dickens! The 200th birthday of the author has seen the publication of some interesting biographies. The latest, Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens by Robert Gottlieb, hits the bookstores on November 27th.
Gottlieb’s book focuses on the lives of the ten children of Charles Dickens. (Yep, he had ten children.) It also touches on a possible child that Dickens had with his mistress, Ellen Ternan.
I haven’t read a review copy, but Publisher’s Weekly has. In their review of Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens PW says, “This smart and accessible biography is written in a clever, conversational tone that radiates coziness during even the coldest moments, keeping the pages swiftly turning. ”
Here’s what Amazon has to say about the book:
Charles Dickens, famous for the indelible child characters he created—from Little Nell to Oliver Twist and David Copperfield—was also the father of ten children (and a possible eleventh). What happened to those children is the fascinating subject of Robert Gottlieb’s Great Expectations. With sympathy and understanding he narrates the highly various and surprising stories of each of Dickens’s sons and daughters, from Kate, who became a successful artist, to Frank, who died in Moline, Illinois, after serving a grim stretch in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Each of these lives is fascinating on its own. Together they comprise a unique window on Victorian England as well as a moving and disturbing study of Dickens as a father and as a man.
Go to Amazon.com to buy Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens
10 Funny Quotes from Literature
Classic literature can be inspirational. It can be poetic. It can be educational. Classic literature can also be really funny! Check out these ten funny quotes from literature:
1 – “How dreadful!” cried Lord Henry. “I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.” ~ The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
2 – “If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you’d form some idea of what unrequited affection is.” ~ Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
3 – Indeed, he would sometimes remark, when a man fell into his anecdotage, it was a sign for him to retire from the world. ~ Lothair by Benjamin Disraeli
4 – You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. ~ Zuleika Dobson by Sir Max Beerbohm
5 – The bishop did not whistle: we believe that they lose the power of doing so on being consecrated. ~ The Warden by Anthony Trollope
6 – A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience. ~ Strictly Business by O. Henry
7 – From politics, it was an easy step to silence. ~ Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
8 – Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. ~ The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
9 – It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. ~ Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
10 – I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again. ~ This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you enjoyed these quotes check out our humorous quotes page or our random funny quote feature.