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Charles John Huffam Dickens, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts war ein englischer Schriftsteller. Ihm wird große literaturgeschichtliche Bedeutung beigemessen. 2015 wählten 82 internationale Literaturkritiker und -wissenschaftler vier seiner Romane zu den bedeutendsten britischen Romanen: David Copperfield, Bleak House, Große Erwartungen sowie Dombey und Sohn. Zu seinen bekanntesten Werken gehören außerdem Oliver Twist, Eine Geschichte aus zwei Städten sowie Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte.

✵ 7. Februar 1812 – 9. Juni 1870
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Charles Dickens Berühmte Zitate

„Ich fühle, dass Kleinigkeiten die Summe des Lebens ausmachen.“

Charles Dickens

David Copperfield, Kapitel 53, Another Retrospect
Original engl.: "I […] feel the truth, that trifles make the sum of life."
David Copperfield

„Ohne schlechte Menschen gäbe es keine guten Anwälte.“

Charles Dickens buch The Old Curiosity Shop

Der Raritätenladen (The Old Curiosity Shop), Kapitel 56 / Mr. Brass
Original engl.: "If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers."
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„Ja, auf den Boden.“

Charles Dickens

Letzte Worte, zu seiner Schwägerin Mrs. Hogarth, die ihn drängte sich hinzulegen, 9. Juni 1870; Mary (Mamie) Dickens: My Father As I Recall Him; Chapter VI
Original engl.: "Yes, on the ground."
Letzte Worte

„Ich glaube, dass die Beobachtungsgabe vieler sehr junger Kinder wegen ihrer Nähe und Genauigkeit etwas sehr Wunderbares ist. Wahrhaftig denke ich, dass man von den meisten Erwachsenen, die in dieser Hinsicht bemerkenswert sind, weniger sagen kann, dass sie diese Fähigkeit erworben, als vielmehr, dass sie sie nicht verloren haben.“

Charles Dickens

David Copperfield, Kapitel 2, I Observe
Original engl.: "I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that most grown men who are remarkable in this respect, may with greater propriety be said not to have lost the faculty, than to have acquired it."
David Copperfield

„Tatsachen, Tatsachen, Tatsachen gaben sich in jedem wesentlichen Anblick der Stadt kund; und Tatsachen, Tatsachen, Tatsachen in jedem nicht wesentlichen. […] Was man also nicht mit Zahlen beweisen und dartun konnte, daß es auf dem billigsten Markte zu kaufen und auf dem teuersten zu verkaufen war, das hatte keine Existenzberechtigung, das sollte niemals sein, bis zu aller Welt Ende, Amen.“

Charles Dickens

Schwere Zeiten, Fünftes Kapitel. gutenberg.spiegel.de http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/?id=5&xid=4014&kapitel=6&cHash=31c32fc3c12#gb_found
Original engl.: "Fact, fact, fact, everywhere in the material aspect of the town; fact, fact, fact, everywhere in the immaterial. [...] what you couldn't state in figures, or show to be purchaseable in the cheapest market and saleable in the dearest, was not, and never should be, world without end, Amen."
Schwere Zeiten (Hard Times)

Charles Dickens Zitate und Sprüche

„Der Himmel weiß, dass wir uns niemals unserer Tränen schämen müssen, denn sie sind der Regen auf den blind machenden Staub der Erde, der über unserem harten Herzen liegt.“

Charles Dickens buch Große Erwartungen

Große Erwartungen (Great Expectations), Kapitel 19
Original engl.: "Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts."
Große Erwartungen (Great Expectations)

Herz

„In diesem Leben haben wir nichts als Tatsachen nötig, mein Herr: nichts als Tatsachen.«“

Charles Dickens

Schwere Zeiten, Erstes Kapitel, gutenberg.spiegel.de http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/?id=5&xid=4014&kapitel=2&cHash=31c32fc3c1chap002#gb_found
Original engl.: "In this life, we want nothing but Facts, sir; nothing but Facts!"
Schwere Zeiten (Hard Times)

Über Leben

„Kinder erleben nichts so scharf und bitter wie Ungerechtigkeit.“

Charles Dickens buch Große Erwartungen

Große Erwartungen (Great Expectations), Kapitel 8
Original engl.: "In the little world in which children have their existence […], there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice."
Große Erwartungen (Great Expectations)

Über Leben , Über Gerechtigkeit

„Auch eine schwere Tür hat nur einen kleinen Schlüssel nötig.“

Charles Dickens

Zur Strecke gebracht (Hunted Down), Kapitel II.
Original engl.: "A very little key will open a very heavy door."
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Charles Dickens: Zitate auf Englisch

“It was a maxim with Mr. Brass that the habit of paying compliments kept a man’s tongue oiled without any expense; and that, as that useful member ought never to grow rusty or creak in turning on its hinges in the case of a practitioner of the law, in whom it should be always glib and easy, he lost few opportunities of improving himself by the utterance of handsome speeches and eulogistic expressions.”

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Charles Dickens buch The Old Curiosity Shop

Quelle: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 35

“"Did you ever taste beer?" "I had a sip of it once," said the small servant. "Here's a state of things!" cried Mr Swiveller, raising his eyes to the ceiling. "She never tasted it — it can't be tasted in a sip!"”

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Charles Dickens buch The Old Curiosity Shop

Quelle: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 57

“The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.”

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Charles Dickens buch Sketches by Boz

Our Parish, Ch. 5 : The Broker’s Man
Sketches by Boz (1836-1837)

“The Circumlocution Office was (as everybody knows without being told) the most important Department under Government. No public business of any kind could possibly be done at any time without the acquiescence of the Circumlocution Office. Its finger was in the largest public pie, and in the smallest public tart. It was equally impossible to do the plainest right and to undo the plainest wrong without the express authority of the Circumlocution Office.”

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Charles Dickens buch Little Dorrit

Bk. I, Ch. 10
Little Dorrit (1855-1857)

“How much longer are we English to assist foreign nations in misunderstand us, by holding up that ridiculous lay-figure of our race known by the style and title of John Bull?”

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Charles Dickens All the Year Round

"One Grand Tour Deserves Another" in All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal (27 December 1862) http://books.google.com/books?id=13VdAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA378

“That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different it's course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for the moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”

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Charles Dickens buch Große Erwartungen

Quelle: Great Expectations (1860-1861), Ch. 9

“We must scrunch or be scrunched.”

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Charles Dickens buch Our Mutual Friend

Bk. III, Ch. 5
Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865)

“He’s tough, ma’am,—tough is J. B.; tough and devilish sly.”

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Charles Dickens buch Dombey and Son

Quelle: Dombey and Son (1846-1848), Ch. 7

“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”

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Charles Dickens buch The Old Curiosity Shop

Quelle: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 56

“I want to be something so much worthier than the doll in the doll's house.”

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Charles Dickens buch Our Mutual Friend

Bk. I, Ch. 55
Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865)

“You will not have forgotten that it was a maxim with Foxey — our revered father, gentlemen — "Always suspect everybody." That's the maxim to go through life with!”

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Charles Dickens buch The Old Curiosity Shop

Quelle: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 66

“I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in this world here, where I find myself. And I tell you this, my friend, that there are people (men and women both, unfortunately) who have no good in them—none. That there are people whom it is necessary to detest without compromise. That there are people who must be dealt with as enemies of the human race. That there are people who have no human heart, and who must be crushed like savage beasts and cleared out of the way.”

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Charles Dickens buch Little Dorrit

Bk. I, Ch. 11
Little Dorrit (1855-1857)

“A prison taint was on everything there. The imprisoned air, the imprisoned light, the imprisoned damps, the imprisoned men, were all deteriorated by confinement. As the captive men were faded and haggard, so the iron was rusty, the stone was slimy, the wood was rotten, the air was faint, the light was dim. Like a well, like a vault, like a tomb, the prison had no knowledge of the brightness outside; and would have kept its polluted atmosphere intact, in one of the spice islands of the Indian Ocean.”

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Charles Dickens buch Little Dorrit

Bk. I, Ch. 1
Little Dorrit (1855-1857)

“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies!”

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Charles Dickens buch Bleak House

Quelle: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 6

“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.”

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Charles Dickens buch The Old Curiosity Shop

Quelle: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 7

“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”

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Charles Dickens buch Große Erwartungen

Quelle: Great Expectations (1860-1861), Ch. 40

“The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land,
In England there shall be dear bread—in Ireland, sword and brand;
And poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand,
So, rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand,
Of the fine old English Tory days;
Hail to the coming time!”

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Charles Dickens

The Fine Old English Gentleman (1841)

“What is the odds so long as the fire of soul is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather! What is the odds so long as the spirit is expanded by means of rosy wine, and the present moment is the least happiest of our existence!”

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Charles Dickens buch The Old Curiosity Shop

Quelle: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 2

“The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer’s shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window.”

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Charles Dickens buch The Old Curiosity Shop

Quelle: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 27

“Who will wonder that Barbara had a headache, or that Barbara's mother was disposed to be cross, or that she slightly underrated Astley's, and thought the clown was older than they had taken him to be last night? Kit was not surprised to hear her say so--not he. He had already had a misgiving that the inconstant actors in that dazzling vision had been doing the same thing the night before last, and would do it again that night, and the next, and for weeks and months to come, though he would not be there. Such is the difference between yesterday and today. We are all going to the play, or coming home from it.”

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Charles Dickens buch The Old Curiosity Shop

Quelle: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 40

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape.”

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Charles Dickens buch Große Erwartungen

Quelle: Great Expectations (1860-1861), Ch. 59

“Mr. Chadband is a large yellow man, with a fat smile, and a general appearance of having a good deal of train oil in his system.”

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Charles Dickens buch Bleak House

Quelle: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 19

““She means well,” said Mr Jarndyce, hastily. “The wind’s in the east.” “It was in the north, sir, as we came down,” observed Richard. “My dear Rick,” said Mr Jarndyce, poking the fire, “I’ll take an oath it’s either in the east, or going to be. I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.””

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Charles Dickens buch Bleak House

Quelle: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 6

“Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry.”

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Charles Dickens buch Our Mutual Friend

Bk. I, Ch. 5
Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865)

“In mind, she was of a strong and vigorous turn, having from her earliest youth devoted herself with uncommon ardour to the study of the law; not wasting her speculations upon its eagle flights, which are rare, but tracing it attentively through all the slippery and eel-like crawlings in which it commonly pursues its way.”

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Charles Dickens buch The Old Curiosity Shop

Quelle: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 33

“Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.”

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Charles Dickens buch The Old Curiosity Shop

Quelle: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 12

“What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? Oh, yes! Therefore, my friends, I wish for peace, upon you and upon yours.”

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Charles Dickens buch Bleak House

Quelle: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 19

“Your sex have such a surprising animosity against one another when you do differ.”

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Charles Dickens buch Bleak House

Quelle: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 54, Mr. Bucket to Mademoiselle Hortense

“The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.”

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Charles Dickens buch Bleak House

Quelle: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 39

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