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Oswald Mosley

Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (November 16, 1896 – December 3, 1980) was a British politician principally known as the founder of the British Union of Fascists.

Quotes

 * That consecrated combination of private interests and public plunders.
 * Mosley on the banking system, Annual Report (1925) of the Independent Labour Party, quoted in Robert Skidelsky, Oswald Mosley (Papermacs, 1981), p. 142.

 * Faced with the alternative of saying goodbye to the gold standard, and therefore to his own employment, and goodbye to other people's employment, Mr. Churchill characteristically selected the latter course.
 * Winston Churchill, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, had returned Britain to the gold standard and Mosley believed this would lead to unemployment, quoted in Robert Skidelsky, Oswald Mosley (Papermacs, 1981), p. 143.

 * We propose first to expand credit in order to create demand. That new and greater demand must, of course, be met by a new and greater supply of goods, or all the evils of inflation and price rise will result. Here our Socialist planning must enter in. We must see that more goods are forthcoming to meet the new demand.
 * Revolution by Reason, p. 31, quoted in Robert Skidelsky, Oswald Mosley (Papermacs, 1981), p. 145.

 * The ranks of the City are now divided. The advanced section, headed by Mr McKenna and Mr Keynes, face the orthodox and reactionary ranks which are led by Mr Montagu Norman and the heads of the Treasury. To the uninitiated it...seems a little unfortunate that the ex-Labour chancellor should appear...to be an ardent supporter of Mr Montagu Norman. It will be little less than a disaster if in this struggle Labour support is accorded to the reactionary elements in the City.
 * Socialist Review (September 1927), quoted in Robert Skidelsky, Oswald Mosley (Papermacs, 1981), p. 152.

 * If you love our country you are national, and if you love our people you are a socialist.
 * Fascists, Michael Mann, Cambridge University Press (2006) p. 7.

 * The declared object of deflation was the restoration of the gold standard at pre-war parity. Its actual effect has been to create unemployment by the restriction of industrial credit. By the lever of unemployment it has forced down wages and has thus facilitated the return to gold through the reduction of prices. An incidental effect has been to transfer purchasing power from the workers, whose wages have been reduced, to the bondholders, whose interest has remained the same. It has also doubled the real burden of Debt since 1920, and was largely responsible for the mining lock-out last year, by the reduction in terms of sterling of the money which we receive for coal sold abroad. Deflation, in fact, has been responsible for a sinister catalogue of disasters which can be substantiated in detailed argument that has never yet been rebutted.
 * New Leader (20 September 1927), quoted in Robert Skidelsky, Oswald Mosley (Papermacs, 1981), pp. 152-153.

 * We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers.
 * In 1927 after his Labour Party meeting in Cambridge was broken-up by pro-Fascist undergraduates. The mention of "ice-cream sellers" was a reference to Italian immigrants who had opened ice-cream parlours.

 * Feudalism worked in its crude and inequitable fashion until the coming of the Industrial Age. Today the Feudal tradition and its adherents are broken as a political power and in most cases are ignobly lending their prestige and their abilities to the support of the predatory plutocracy which has gained complete control of the Conservative Party. In modern times the old regime is confronted with two alternatives. The first is to serve the new world in a great attempt to bring order out of chaos and beauty out of squalor. The other alternative is to become flunkeys of the bourgeoisie. It is a matter of constant surprise and regret that many of my class have chosen the latter course.
 * Letter to The Morning Post (27 July 1928), quoted in Robert Skidelsky, Oswald Mosley (Papermacs, 1981), p. 134.

 * Together in Britain we have lit a flame that the ages shall not extinguish. Guard that sacred flame, my brother Blackshirts, until it illuminates Britain and lights again the paths of mankind.
 * 'Comrades in Struggle' (June 1938).

 * A fight between several parties of the British people: Nothing of the kind! A fight between two or three big money combines, that and nothing else. Without the weight of money behind the party machines, in an electoral battle today determined purely by principle and by the number of active workers...British Union could fight and beat today the old parties over the whole electoral field. But you know and I know, the battle is nothing of the kind. The battle is between big money combines who spend a thousand pounds or more on every constituency they fight. Or when they speak democracy, they don't mean government by the people...they mean financial democracy, in which money counts and nothing but money.
 * Speech in Earls Court (July 1939).

 * Living financially and economically on American charity, selling up the house to the Yanks when he won't pay any more charity out. Are you content to be occupied and protected by American aeroplanes? Are you content to be in the position of an old woman, jipped by her young relations? You who were the greatest power on earth fifty years ago, and still can be! Why do I say, 'you still can be'? Because, my friends, I know you, I know the British people! I know that twice in my lifetime in the world war I fought in, in the world war the younger men fought in. We the British have put our effort, our energy of valor, of heroism, unequalled in the history of mankind.
 * Speech on 21 Novembver, 1960.

 * [Fascism] was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance by people who felt themselves threatened with decline into decadence and death and were determined to live, and live greatly.
 * Excerpt from My Life by Oswald Mosley (1968), Ch.16.

 * I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.
 * Letter to The Times (26 April, 1968), p. 11.

 * ...the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes.
 * Excerpt from Beyond the Pale by Nicholas Mosley.

 * Great men of action never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job.
 * My Life (1968), Ch.12.

 * A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity; it is an occupational risk.
 * My Life, ch.12.

Quotes about Mosley

 * Tom Mosley is a cad and a wrong 'un and they will find it out.
 * Stanley Baldwin's remarks to Thomas Jones, as recorded in Jones' diary (21 June 1929), quoted in Thomas Jones, Whitehall Diary, Volume II (1969), p. 195. "They" were the Labour Party which had recently won the general election.

 * Mosley is the only man I have ever known who could have been the leader of either the Conservative or Labour party...he might have been a very great Prime Minister.
 * Robert Boothby in a BBC broadcast (10 November 1965), quoted in Oswald Mosley, My Life (1968), p. 373, n. 1

 * Capable of becoming either Conservative or Labour Prime Minister.
 * Richard Crossman, New Statesman (27 October 1961)

 * No rising star in the political firmament ever shone more brightly than Oswald Mosley, none promised more surely to soar to the heavens – and none fell to earth with so deadening a thud. Never were such rich talents so wretchedly squandered. Never did success turn to failure so inscrutably.
 * Michael Foot, 'Mosley: the rise and fall of a would-be Caesar', Evening Standard (22 October 1968)

 * Did he not appear to you to be a public man of no little courage, no little candour and no little ability.
 * Lord Chief Justice Hewart

 * He is too 'logical' and if he had his way would attempt to presently 'Russianize'...our government.
 * Thomas Jones' diary entry (22 May 1930), quoted in Thomas Jones, Whitehall Diary, Volume II, ed. Keith Middlemas (1969), p. 250

 * It was a very able document and illuminating.
 * John Maynard Keynes to Hubert Henderson on the Mosley Memorandum (January 1930), quoted in Robert Skidelsky, Politicians and the Slump: The Labour Government of 1929–1931 (1994), p. 170

 * I like the spirit which informs the document. A scheme of national economic planning to achieve a right, or at least a better, balance of our industries between the old and the new, between agriculture and manufacture, between home development and foreign investment; and wide executive powers to carry out the details of such a scheme. That is what it amounts to. ... [The] manifesto offers us a starting point for thought and action. ... It will shock—it must do so—the many good citizens of this country...who have laissez-faire in their craniums, their consciences, and their bones ... But how anyone professing and calling himself a socialist can keep away from the manifesto is a more obscure matter.
 * John Maynard Keynes, 'Sir Oswald Mosley's Manifesto', The Nation and Athenaeum (13 December 1930), quoted in J. M. Keynes, The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Activities, 1929–1931, Rethinking Employment and Unemployment Policies (1971), pp. 473-475

 * [David Lloyd George] said that Mosley was one of the worst tragedies he knew. If Mosley had stuck it, he was just the type that was needed at the moment. He was just the sort of fellow who could talk to this crowd. You needed a fellow today like Mosley, who could have cheeked them.
 * David Lloyd George's remarks at dinner, as recorded in A. J. Sylvester's diary (22 February 1938), quoted in A. J. Sylvester, Life with Lloyd George. The Diary of A. J. Sylvester 1931–45, ed. Colin Cross (1975), p. 197

 * I had many conversations with him during the next few months [in 1930], and was struck both by his acute intelligence and his energy. There was a moment later in the year when I was myself tempted to work with his New Party, for there were many points of his programme which seemed to me at once reasonable and constructive. ... I deeply regretted the course that Sir Oswald Mosley later took. Even his loyal friends...left him when they saw his movement beginning to develop into a form of Fascism, with everything which that implied. This whole story was something of a tragedy. Great talents and great strengths of character were thrown away in vain.
 * Harold Macmillan, Winds of Change (1966), p. 263

 * He is the only living Englishman who could perfectly well have been either Conservative or Labour Prime Minister.
 * Malcolm Muggeridge, The Observer (2 October 1966)

 * He was the only English politician who might easily have become Prime Minister as Conservative, Liberal or Socialist.
 * Harold Nicolson, New Statesman (12 April 1968)

 * I heard Mosley speak here on Sunday. It sickens one to see how easily a man of that type can win over and bamboozle a working class audience.
 * George Orwell to Jack Common (17 March 1936), quoted in George Orwell, The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell. Volume I: An Age Like This, 1920–1940, eds. Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus (1968), p. 169

 * One would have had to look a long time to find a man more barren of ideas than Sir Oswald Mosley. He was as hollow as a jug. Even the elementary fact that Fascism must not offend national sentiment had escaped him. His entire movement was imitated slavishly from abroad, the uniform and the party programme from Italy and the salute from Germany, with the Jew-baiting tacked on as an afterthought, Mosley having actually started his movement with Jews among his most prominent followers.
 * George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius. Part I: England Your England (1941), quoted in George Orwell, The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell. Volume II: My Country Right or Left, 1940–1943, eds. Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus (1968), pp. 92–93
 * Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists was one of the most interesting failures, not least because Mosley probably had the greatest intellectual gifts and the strongest social connections of all the fascist chiefs. As a promising junior minister of the Labour government of 1929, he put forward a bold plan in early 1930 to combat the Depression by making the empire a closed economic zone and by spending (into deficit, if need be) for job-creating public works and consumer credit. When the leaders of the Labour Party rebuffed these unorthodox proposals, Mosley resigned and formed his own New Party in 1931, taking a few left-wing Labour MPs with him. The New Party won no seats, however, in the parliamentary election of October 1931. A visit to Mussolini persuaded the frustrated Mosley that fascism was the wave of the future, and his own personal way forward.
 * Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism (2004), pp. 74-75
 * Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (October 1932) won some important early converts, like Lord Rothermere, publisher of the mass-circulation London Daily Mail. Mosley’s movement aroused revulsion, however, when his black-shirted guards spotlighted and beat up opponents at a large public meeting at the Olympia expedition hall in London in June 1934. Hitler’s Night of the Long Knives, at the end of the same month, provoked the departure of 90 percent of the BUF’s fifty thousand members, including Lord Rothermere. At the end of 1934, Mosley took an actively anti-Semitic track and sent his Blackshirts to swagger through London’s East End, where they fought with Jews and Communists, building a new clientele among unskilled workers and struggling shopkeepers there. The Public Order Act, passed soon after the “Battle of Cable Street” with antifascists on October 4, 1936, outlawed political uniforms and deprived the BUF of its public spectacles, but it grew again to twenty thousand with a campaign against war in 1939. Mosley’s black shirts, violence, and overt sympathy for Mussolini and Hitler (he was married to Diana Mitford in Hitler’s presence at Munich in 1936) seemed alien to most people in Britain, and gradual economic revival after 1931 under the broadly accepted National Government, a coalition dominated by conservatives, left him little political space.
 * Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism (2004), p. 75

 * Mosley was a disciple of Keynes in the 1920s; and Keynesianism was his great contribution to Fascism. It was Keynesianism which in the last resort made Mosley's Fascism distinctively English, though it was not an Englishness which most English pundits were then prepared to recognise, being as remote from the Keynesian thinking as they were from the problems which gave birth to it.
 * Robert Skidelsky, Oswald Mosley (1975), p. 302

 * To Jo Grimond he epitomizes the aristocratic bully.
 * Robert Skidelsky, ‘Mosley, Sir Oswald Ernald, sixth baronet’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn (24 May 2012)

 * The resignation of Sir Oswald Mosley did not come as a surprise... I doubt, indeed, if anybody would be able to work with Mosley unless he were prepared to meekly follow him... I never had any faith in the sincerity of Mosley's professions of Socialism. I was always suspicious of a rich man who came into the Socialist Movement and at once became more socialist than the Socialists... My views of Mosley's sincerity were very generally shared by the Labour members... It was felt that he was a man on the make, and was using the Labour Movement as an instrument for satisfying his ambition... If ever Mosley had the powers of a Hitler or a Mussolini he would be more ruthless and merciless, because weaker and vainer, than those two dictators.
 * Philip Snowden, An Autobiography. Volume Two, 1919–1934 (1934), pp. 875-877

 * The greatest comet of British politics in the twentieth century...an orator of the highest rank. He produced, almost unaided, a programme of economic reconstruction which surpassed anything offered by Lloyd George or, in the United States, by F. D. Roosevelt...He has continued fertile in ideas...A superb political thinker, the best of our age.
 * A. J. P. Taylor

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I moved all the quotes that came from this page to the Unsourced section, because there's no primary source cited for any of them. The quotes merely appearing on a web page without any source there isn't enough to consider the site a source for them here. —LrdChaos 19:20, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

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 * I am famous, but I am not well known.

 * Perfection itself is imperfection.

 * It's better to make your own mistakes than to copy someone else's.

 * My future is in my past and my past is in my present. I must now make the present my future.

 * When I am on the stage, I'm a king. No one can interfere with me because I have something to do, and it has to be the best which is within me.

 * I'm a general. My soldiers are the keys, and I have to command them.

 * My face is my passport.

 * The piano is an orchestra with 88 … things, you know.

 * There are only three kinds of pianists; Jewish pianists, homosexual pianists, and bad pianists.

 * If I don't practice for a day, I know it. If I don't practice for two days, my wife knows it. If I don't practice for three days, the world knows it--I think this comes from a 60 Minutes program.

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User talk:Shez 15~enwikiquote

Hi
Don't you dare putting that she is the most popular actress. With or withour perhaps. Don't think that here in WQ you are free to do every thing. I know that you have a ref. I saw that. I didn't make nothing wrong exept putting names of people before their quotes. FREEWEBS is not reliable. It is a free site made by fans. You and me also can create a fansite there. That's why it named FREEwebs, so I removed the very unbelievable quotes (4-6, not so big deal). The rest are here for now. they seem to be correct, but who knows? --Shshshsh 23:09, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Please stop
Please stop re-adding that she is the most popular.

I'm going to make some changes latter. Please find references. And don't give me freewebs.com. --Shshshsh 15:27, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

OMG
First of all. Your article which is full of hate and anger, could have been posted in my TALK page.

There's no proof for Dixit to say that she always liked her. Always? When? even in the days of Tezaab and HAHK? LOL

I didn't vandalize and didn't do nothing in a devious way. Look what you have done on the Preity page earlier. You said: I don't degrade Preity's page. Look, []

What can you tell me about that?

Now, I don't have to prve you how much I like Mukerji. I'm trying to just make this page more encyclopedic. You have to understand. The quoted from freewebs, whether they're referenced or not, are not prmitted since freewebs is unreliable. I did remove the Dixit's quote since it's not right. Please try to find articles which we can read. Then it will make more sense. You just give me the ref and I can add the quotes in.

One more thing: Stars adore her, stars love her, stars die for her. All as one - unencyclopedical. --Shshshsh 14:36, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Go and create a fansite
There you will add whatever you want. Attacking Preity and Kareena with these stupid quotes. KWK is a chat show. Video references are not permitted. Intro remains in my version whether you like that or not.

What is the sense in giving the quotes of 3-4 years ago? There is no sense. They were changed, Rani apologized for her words, Kareena's and Preity's feus is closed just like many other things. It's just a funny and an entertaining show. People say bad/good things. Preity always said that Rani is great. Rani was always angry with Preity because of Preity's previous success (ie KHNH) cause she didn't receive the role even though being senior and a good actress. So it's not a style. Find interviews, but not rapid fires. Look Amitabh Bachchan for preferred said: Aishwarya above Rani and Preity, Jaya in an old film rather than Rani in Black. Shilpa Shetty and Sanjay Dutt Said Kajol is the best. Shez you also have to notice that we are not permitted to use videos as references, especially when it comes to quotes. How can I know that you're quoting it good without bias? Facts are only when it comes to be a written text.

I changed Preity's quote. Don't you dare reverting my edits. After some time Preity also said that she had come to Rani and said: "Why did you talk behind my back saying I talk too much?" and Rani said: "I was just joking babe..." cause Rani knows that Preity can confront her in a big way. It was also on KWK. Why don't you add it in? Rani said that in the show, cause she didn't like what Preity said. So this case is closed. I will do a big change here. All the quotes from freewebs.com will be removed. KWK - we are not promoting it. It's not a newspaper or an interview or something like this. Saying that someone thinks that Rani is better than Kareena is stupid. Preity said that in her way: "Out of all the actors of my generation I worked with, Rani is the best" and the meaning is that rani is better than Gracy Singh for example but not better than Dixit who worked with Preity in YRHPK, cause she is not of the same generation.

STOP glorifying Rani. I will revert any injustice of yours. If you don't stop, I'll turn to an admin here.

Again, I strongly oppose to have KWK. Shows of 3 years ago are no longer interesting. Actors say there everything they want. I knew that one day you would come with this quote of Rani on Preity. Rani said to Preity that she was just joking. So we can understand that that's it. + unreferenced quotes are not for here. I don't trust you in quotes terms. --Shshshsh 14:39, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

YOU STOP IT!!!!
A) I have a talk page. Stop posting your stupid messages on my user page.

B) We are not promoting KWK. I think it should be deleted. Comparing between actors and saying that Rani said Preity talks too much. Rani was jealous of her. That's why she said that. In that point of time Preity was already a winner of the Best Actor award. Plus, it is not permitted also to attack actors and this is an attack. And I have a quote where Preity says that Rani said to Preity that she was just joking so this stupid quote is cancelled. Stop saying that someone said Rani is better than Kareena Kajol or whoever. Go to Wikiquote policy and there you'll see what is permitted and what is not...

C) Video refs are not permitted. NO NO NO NO. Again NO. Stop it. I said no so it's no. Ask whoever you want. Everybody can change it especially when it comes to Shez_15, a die-hard fan of Rani.

D) Now I really intend to remove all that except Madhuri's quote. Quotes from freewebs will be removed. All these three years old quotes from KWK are no longer relevant. Stop attacking Preity, Kareena and Kajol. Things have been changed. Make it more encyclopedic. Not KWK and talk shows. I think good intervies from Rediff or Times of India.

E)Why aren't you putting Preity's quote about her. Why aren't you adding that Big B said that Aish is better and his wife was better in Kora Kagaz than Rani in Black. So it is all full rubbish.

F) OHHH you Don't forgive me... Please Please LOL, I didn't ask you for. LOLLLL

--Shshshsh 12:53, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

NO
You think I hate Rani and I won't clarify. You haven't said yet nothing about your edits in the link I gave you. About Freewebs, it will be removed from Preity's page when I remove that from Rani's.

Wiqiquote is still, an encyclopedia. I've seen Lindsay Lohan's page and even there you can see where the quotes are taken from, Londoan times, New york times. KWK? KWK is a really stupid talk show where actors come just to speak. Karan tries to get all the bad things they can say. Why are you insisting to have here the quote where Rani says that Preity talks too much and Karan mentions that? Why? I told you that Preity came to confront her and Rani said that she was just joking. We are not here and we are not permitted to give quotes where actors say bad things on each other. Apart from it, these shows were set three four years ago. Things were changed. They all now mature. There is no importance to that.

I want to remove KWK. And I will do that. You better try to do something beneficial. VIDEOS are not suitable as sources. DOT.

WOW, you gave me a good quote to explain something. ''Ashu-Ma, you know I love you. And I just want to say one thing that we are going to be friends forever''. That's an example of something that is already over. Things were changed. They are no longer friends. So this is also the case of KWK. Things have been changed since 2003-2004.

I removed Freewebs finally. Nobody knows whether these things were actually said by someone or not. Who knows. It is quite possible that this was created by you. --Shshshsh 05:20, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Here you go. See this:

 * Karan: 2-3 years ago there was always talks about you and Rani on war-path, you and Kareena having problems and you know? Rani coming on this very show and saying that 'Oh Preity talks too much and she should keep her opinions to herself' but now when I see you with her, I feel everyone looks a little more relaxed in their own life. Do you think things have changed?
 * Preity: Yeah! But I always joke with Rani. Everytime I meet her, I go ZIP (zipping her lips) and she says, 'No babes, I didn't mean that!'

 * Karan: What were the repercussions of that? were you shocked when you heard she said that on the show?
 * Preity: I told Rani, why did you have to say this? you should have told me so she said, 'No babe I was just kidding!' which I believe because when I work with her, I don't have a problem working with her and I'm pretty instinctive that way. As long as I don't have a problem working with her, she is entitled to her opinions also just as I am entitled to my opinions.

 * Here you go... Your stupid quote is cancelled. And don't you dare re-adding quotes from freewebs.com. --Shshshsh 07:07, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

 * PS: And remember, I will never concede. You can go and report wherever you want. Your vandalism is not acceptable here. I will never let you write such stupid fudges. Rubbish, fangush and cheap quotes are not suitable for wikiquote. You better try to help the page making it more encyclopedic. I repeat, fansites will be good for someone like you. They are free and popular on the net. Mmmm go to freewebs.com. It's free. --Shshshsh 13:18, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Listen
I know that Wikiquote is something that one hardly sees. And I know that except you and me no-one reads it, But still... I think you saw the quote I gave you regarding the "Talk too Much" issue. This closed. KWK is still a chat show, and although you were working hard to quote it, we are not permitted to use videos. I know it's the best way but we are not permitted... You have to get it.

I strongly disagree to have quotes where people compare actresses, Rani and Kareena or Preity and Rani or Rani and Kajol. All of them great actresses. We are not here to write how actors dirty on actors. --Shshshsh 11:16, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

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Indian actresses content & editor dispute
I have finished my review of the content/editor dispute posted at WQ:AN. Please go there to see my analysis and recommendations. I hope to provide more specific suggestions within a day, but this should give you the general feel for how to proceed. Let me know if you have any questions. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 05:36, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Shez 15 and Shshshsh, here are some notes I made while investigating your dispute. They are in no particular order, and there is some overlap. But if I wait until I have time to better organize them, I'm afraid it'll take another few days, and I'm already nearly a week behind my commitment to give your this information. Please forgive the disorder.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens, FRSA (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner.
 * See also:
 * The Pickwick Papers (1836)
 * Oliver Twist (1838)
 * Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839)
 * Barnaby Rudge (1841)
 * Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-1844)
 * A Christmas Carol (1843)
 * David Copperfield (1849-1850)
 * A Child's History of England (1852-1854)
 * A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
 * Great Expectations (1860-1861)

Quotes

 * Mr. Augustus Minns was a bachelor, of about forty as he said — of about eight-and-forty as his friends said. He was always exceedingly clean, precise, and tidy: perhaps somewhat priggish, and the most retiring man in the world.
 * First lines of Dicken's first published work, originally titled "A Dinner at Poplar Walk" (1833), later published as "Mr. Minns and his Cousin"

 * There were two classes of created objects which he held in the deepest and most unmingled horror: they were, dogs and children. He was not unamiable, but he could at any time have viewed the execution of a dog, or the assassination of an infant, with the liveliest satisfaction. Their habits were at variance with his love of order; and his love of order, was as powerful as his love of life.
 * "A Dinner at Poplar Walk" (1833), later published as "Mr. Minns and his Cousin"

 * If any one were to ask me what in my opinion was the dullest and most stupid spot on the face of the Earth, I should decidedly say Chelmsford.
 * Letter to Thomas Beard (11 January 1835), in Madeline House, et al., The Letters of Charles Dickens (1965), p. 53

Like the balmy breath of a summer day; It is not — it cannot be — laid aside; It is not a thing to forget or hide.''' It clings to the heart, ah, woe is me! As the ivy clings to the old oak tree. '''Love is not a passion of earthly mould, As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold: For when all these wishes have died away, The deep strong love of a brighter day, Though nourished in secret, consumes the more, As the slow rust eats to the iron’s core.'''
 * '''Love is not a feeling to pass away,
 * Lucy's Song in The Village Coquettes (1836); later published in The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens (1903)

 * To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
 * Master Humphrey's Clock, (1840) Vol. 1

 * 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!
 * The Fine Old English Gentleman (1841)

 * Wherever religion is resorted to as a strong drink, and as an escape from the dull, monotonous round of home, those of its ministers who pepper the highest will be the surest to please. They who strew the Eternal Path with the greatest amount of brimstone, and who most ruthlessly tread down the flowers and leaves that grow by the wayside, will be voted the most righteous; and they who enlarge with the greatest pertinacity on the difficulty of getting into heaven will be considered, by all true believers, certain of going there: though it would be hard to say by what process of reasoning this conclusion is arrived at.
 * American Notes (1842), Ch. 3

 * I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
 * Comment while on an American tour (March 1842), as quoted in Dickens (1949) by Hesketh Pearson, Ch. 8

 * O let us love our occupations, Bless the squire and his relations, Live upon our daily rations, And always know our proper stations.
 * The Chimes, Second Quarter (1844)

 * I was present, myself, at the execution of Courvoisier. I was, purposely, on the spot, from midnight of the night before; and was a near witness of the whole process of the building of the scaffold, the gathering of the crowd, the gradual swelling of the concourse with the coming-on of day, the hanging of the man, the cutting of the body down, and the removal of it into the prison. From the moment of my arrival, when there were but a few score boys in the street, and those all young thieves, and all clustered together behind the barrier nearest to the drop – down to the time when I saw the body with its dangling head, being carried on a wooden bier into the gaol – I did not see one token in all the immense crowd; at the windows, in the streets, on the house-tops, anywhere; of any one emotion suitable to the occasion. No sorrow, no salutary terror, no abhorrence, no seriousness; nothing but ribaldry, debauchery, levity, drunkenness, and flaunting vice in fifty other shapes. I should have deemed it impossible that I could have ever felt any large assemblage of my fellow-creatures to be so odious.
 * Letter to the editors of The Daily News (28 February 1846), p. 6, as cited on the The Charles Dickens Letters Project website.
 * On the public execution on 6 July 1840 of the valet François Benjamin Courvoisier, who had murdered his employer Lord William Russell.

 * La difficulté d'écrire l'anglais m'est extrêmement ennuyeuse. Ah, mon Dieu! si l'on pouvait toujours écrire cette belle langue de France!
 * The difficulty of writing English is most tiresome to me. My God! If only we could write this beautiful language of France at all times!
 * Letter to John Foster (7 July 1850)

All the red tape in the country grew redder at the bare mention of this bold and original conception, and it took till 1826 to get these sticks abolished. In 1834 it was found that there was a considerable accumulation of them; and the question then arose, what was to be done with such worn-out, worm-eaten, rotten old bits of wood? I dare say there was a vast amount of minuting, memoranduming, and despatch-boxing on this mighty subject. The sticks were housed at Westminster, and it would naturally occur to any intelligent person that nothing could be easier than to allow them to be carried away for fire-wood by the miserable people who live in that neighbourhood. However, they never had been useful, and official routine required that they never should be, and so the order went forth that they were to be privately and confidentially burnt. It came to pass that they were burnt in a stove in the House of Lords. The stove, overgorged with these preposterous sticks, set fire to the panelling; the panelling set fire to the House of Lords; the House of Lords set fire to the House of Commons; the two houses were reduced to ashes; architects were called in to build others; we are now in the second million of the cost thereof, the national pig is not nearly over the stile yet; and the little old woman, Britannia, hasn't got home to-night. ...The great, broad, and true cause that our public progress is far behind our private progress, and that we are not more remarkable for our private wisdom and success in matters of business than we are for our public folly and failure, I take to be as clearly established as the sun, moon, and stars.
 * If the people at large be not already convinced that a sufficient general case has been made out for Administrative Reform, I think they never can be, and they never will be. ...Ages ago a savage mode of keeping accounts on notched sticks was introduced into the Court of Exchequer, and the accounts were kept, much as Robinson Crusoe kept his calendar on the desert island. In the course of considerable revolutions of time, the celebrated Cocker was born, and died; Walkinghame, of the Tutor's Assistant, and well versed in figures, was also born, and died; a multitude of accountants, book-keepers and actuaries, were born, and died. Still official routine inclined to these notched sticks, as if they were pillars of the constitution, and still the Exchequer accounts continued to be kept on certain splints of elm wood called "tallies." In the reign of George III an inquiry was made by some revolutionary spirit, whether pens, ink, and paper, slates and pencils, being in existence, this obstinate adherence to an obsolete custom ought to be continued, and whether a change ought not to be effected.
 * "Administrative Reform" (June 27, 1855) Theatre Royal, Drury Lane Speeches Literary and Social by Charles Dickens (1870) pp. 133-134

 * I wish I were Commander in Chief of India. The first thing I would do to strike that Oriental race with amazement (not in the least regarding them as if they lived in the Strand, London, or at Camden Town), should be to proclaim to them in their language, that I considered my Holding that appointment by the leave of God, to mean that I should do my utmost to exterminate the Race upon whom the stain of the late cruelties rested; and that I begged them to do me the favor to observe that I was there for that purpose and no other, and was now proceeding, which all convenient dispatch and merciful swiftness of execution, to blot it out of mankind and raze it off the face of the earth.
 * On the Indian Rebellion of 1857, in a letter to Baronness Burdett-Coutts (4 October 1857)

 * You know faces, when they are not brown; you know common experiences when they are not under turbans; Look at the dogs - low, treacherous, merderous, tigerous villians … I wish I were Commander in Chief over there ! I would address that Oriental character which must be powerfully spoken to, in something like the following placard, which should be vigorously translated into all native dialects, “I, The Inimitable, holding this office of mine, and firmly believing that I hold it by the permission of Heaven and not by the appointment of Satan, have the honor to inform you Hindoo gentry that it is my intention, with all possible avoidance of unnecessary cruelty and with all merciful swiftness of execution, to exterminate the Race from the face of the earth, which disfigured the earth with the late abominable atrocities"
 * On the Indian Rebellion of 1857, in a letter to Emile de la Rue (23 October 1857)

 * It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.
 * About having a book, in a letter to Mrs. Richard Watson (7 December 1857)

 * I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
 * Hunted Down (1859)

 * 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?
 * "One Grand Tour Deserves Another" in All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal (27 December 1862)

 * Resisting the slow touch of a frozen finger tracing out my spine.
 * The Signal-Man (1866)

 * I put a New Testament among your books, for the very same reasons, and with the very same hopes that made me write an easy account of it for you, when you were a little child; because it is the best book that ever was or will be known in the world, and because it teaches you the best lessons by which any human creature who tries to be truthful and faithful to duty can possibly be guided. As your brothers have gone away, one by one, I have written to each such words as I am now writing to you, and have entreated them all to guide themselves by this book, putting aside the interpretations and inventions of men.
 * Letter to Edward Dickens (26 September 1868), published in The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens, Edited by Jenny Hartley

 * (Carmine Crocco) In such a crowd, so numerous and composed of such heterogeneous elements, it might have appeared almost absurd to look for discipline; but perfect discipline there was, for, whatever his other qualities might be, Crocco most undoubtedly was a "ruler of men". His word in that band was law, and the punishment of disaffection was death.
 * All the year round, Vol.15 (1876), p. 281

 * The system here, is rigid, strict, and hopeless solitary confinement... I believe that very few men are capable of estimating the immense amount of torture and agony which this dreadful punishment, prolonged for years, inflicts upon the sufferers... I hold this slow and daily tampering with the mysteries of the brain, to be immeasurably worse than any torture of the body: and because its ghastly signs and tokens are not so palpable to the eye and sense of touch as scars upon the flesh; because its wounds are not upon the surface, and it extorts few cries that human ears can hear; therefore I the more denounce it, as a secret punishment which slumbering humanity is not roused up to stay
 * American Notes online at Project Gutenberg

Sketches by Boz (1836-1837)

 * Online editions at Project Gutenberg online editions at Internet Archive

 * The dignity of his office is never impaired by the absence of efforts on his part to maintain it.
 * Our Parish, Ch. 1 : The Beadle. The Parish Engine. The Schoolmaster.

 * He is not, as he forcibly remarks, ‘one of those fortunate men who, if they were to dive under one side of a barge stark–naked, would come up on the other with a new suit of clothes on, and a ticket for soup in the waistcoat–pocket:’ neither is he one of those, whose spirit has been broken beyond redemption by misfortune and want. He is just one of the careless, good–for–nothing, happy fellows, who float, cork–like, on the surface, for the world to play at hockey with: knocked here, and there, and everywhere: now to the right, then to the left, again up in the air, and anon to the bottom, but always reappearing and bounding with the stream buoyantly and merrily along.
 * Our Parish, Ch. 5 : The Broker’s Man

 * I used to sit, think, think, thinking, till I felt as lonesome as a kitten in a wash–house copper with the lid on.
 * Our Parish, Ch. 5 : The Broker’s Man

 * The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
 * Our Parish, Ch. 5 : The Broker’s Man

 * The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer’s morning, is most striking even to the few whose unfortunate pursuits of pleasure, or scarcely less unfortunate pursuits of business, cause them to be well acquainted with the scene.  There is an air of cold, solitary desolation about the noiseless streets which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a busy, eager crowd, and over the quiet, closely-shut buildings, which throughout the day are swarming with life and bustle, that is very impressive.
 * Ch. 1 : The Streets — Morning

 * Grief never mended no broken bones, and as good people’s wery scarce, what I says is, make the most on ’em.
 * Scenes, Ch. 22 : Gin-Shops

 * It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London. He awakens no sympathy in the breast of any single person; his existence is a matter of interest to no one save himself; he cannot be said to be forgotten when he dies, for no one remembered him when he was alive. There is a numerous class of people in this great metropolis who seem not to possess a single friend, and whom nobody appears to care for. Urged by imperative necessity in the first instance, they have resorted to London in search of employment, and the means of subsistence. It is hard, we know, to break the ties which bind us to our homes and friends, and harder still to efface the thousand recollections of happy days and old times, which have been slumbering in our bosoms for years, and only rush upon the mind, to bring before it associations connected with the friends we have left, the scenes we have beheld too probably for the last time, and the hopes we once cherished, but may entertain no more. These men, however, happily for themselves, have long forgotten such thoughts. Old country friends have died or emigrated; former correspondents have become lost, like themselves, in the crowd and turmoil of some busy city; and they have gradually settled down into mere passive creatures of habit and endurance.
 * Characters, Ch. 1 : Thoughts About People

 * Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused — in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened — by the recurrence of Christmas. There are people who will tell you that Christmas is not to them what it used to be; that each succeeding Christmas has found some cherished hope, or happy prospect, of the year before, dimmed or passed away; that the present only serves to remind them of reduced circumstances and straitened incomes — of the feasts they once bestowed on hollow friends, and of the cold looks that meet them now, in adversity and misfortune. Never heed such dismal reminiscences. There are few men who have lived long enough in the world, who cannot call up such thoughts any day in the year. Then do not select the merriest of the three hundred and sixty-five for your doleful recollections, but draw your chair nearer the blazing fire — fill the glass and send round the song — and if your room be smaller than it was a dozen years ago, or if your glass be filled with reeking punch, instead of sparkling wine, put a good face on the matter, and empty it off-hand, and fill another, and troll off the old ditty you used to sing, and thank God it’s no worse. Look on the merry faces of your children (if you have any) as they sit round the fire. One little seat may be empty; one slight form that gladdened the father’s heart, and roused the mother’s pride to look upon, may not be there. Dwell not upon the past; think not that one short year ago, the fair child now resolving into dust, sat before you, with the bloom of health upon its cheek, and the gaiety of infancy in its joyous eye. Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. Fill your glass again, with a merry face and contented heart. Our life on it, but your Christmas shall be merry, and your new year a happy one!
 * Characters, Ch. 2 : A Christmas Dinner

 * Minerva House … was "a finishing establishment for young ladies," where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.
 * Tales, Ch. 3 : Sentiment

The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)

 * Full text online at Wikisource at Project Gutenberg · at the Internet Archive

 * 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!
 * Ch. 2

 * She's the ornament of her sex.
 * Ch. 5

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

 * To procure a refreshing sneeze at anytime by merely stepping out on the staircase (Fortunate location of Dick Swivellers "Chambers" above a Tabacconists)<
 * Ch. 7, The Comic World of Dickens. Prof.Bernard N.Schilling, Gloucester Mass. 1973. Page 137

 * 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.
 * Ch. 12

 * 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.
 * Ch. 27

 * 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.
 * Ch. 33

 * Under an accumulation of staggerers, no man can be considered a free agent. No man knocks himself down; if his destiny knocks him down, his destiny must pick him up again.
 * Ch. 34

 * 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.
 * Ch. 35

 * In love of home, the love of country has its rise.
 * Ch. 38

 * That vague kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning.
 * Ch. 40

 * '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.'
 * Ch. 40

 * If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
 * Ch. 56

 * "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!"
 * Ch. 57

 * 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!
 * Ch. 66

Dombey and Son (1846-1848)

 * He’s tough, ma’am,—tough is J. B.; tough and devilish sly.
 * Ch. 7

 * "I want to know what it says," he answered, looking steadily in her face. "The sea Floy, what is it that it keeps on saying?"
 * Ch. 8

 * "Wal'r, my boy," replied the Captain, "in the Proverbs of Solomon you will find the following words, 'May we never want a friend in need, nor a bottle to give him!' When found, make a note of."
 * Ch. 15

 * Cows are my passion.
 * Ch. 21

 * The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.
 * Ch. 23

 * …not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent’s love.
 * Ch. 24

 * "Time was," he said, "when it was well to watch even your rising little star, and know in what quarter there were clouds, to shadow you if needful. But a planet has arisen, and you are lost in its light."
 * Ch. 46

 * If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.
 * Ch. 48

 * …vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
 * Ch. 48

Bleak House (1852-1853)

 * Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.
 * Ch. 1

 * This is the Court of Chancery, which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire, which has its worn-out lunatic in every madhouse and its dead in every churchyard, which has its ruined suitor with his slipshod heels and threadbare dress borrowing and begging through the round of every man's acquaintance, which gives to monied might the means abundantly of wearying out the right, which so exhausts finances, patience, courage, hope, so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart, that there is not an honourable man among its practitioners who would not give--who does not often give--the warning, "Suffer any wrong that can be done you rather than come here!"
 * Ch. 1

 * [T]he evil of it is that it is a world wrapped up in too much jeweller’s cotton and fine wool, and cannot hear the rushing of the larger worlds, and cannot see them as they circle round the sun. It is a deadened world, and its growth is sometimes unhealthy for want of air.
 * Ch. 2

 * He is a gentleman of strict conscience, disdainful of all littleness and meanness and ready on the shortest notice to die any death you may please to mention rather than give occasion for the least impeachment of his integrity. He is an honourable, obstinate, truthful, high-spirited, intensely prejudiced, perfectly unreasonable man.
 * Ch. 2

 * "Oh, dear no, miss," he said. "This is a London particular." I had never heard of such a thing. "A fog, miss," said the young gentleman. "Oh, indeed!" said I.
 * Ch. 3

 * I expect a judgment. Shortly.
 * Ch. 3

 * “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.”
 * Ch. 6

 * It is said that the children of the very poor are not brought up, but dragged up.
 * Ch. 6

 * I don’t feel any vulgar gratitude to you. I almost feel as if you ought to be grateful to me, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. I know you like it. For anything I can tell, I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness.
 * Ch. 6

 * I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies!
 * Ch. 6

 * Not to put too fine a point upon it.
 * Ch. 11, 19, 22

 * He wos wery good to me, he wos!
 * Ch. 11

 * He had a cane, he had an eye-glass, he had a snuff-box, he had rings, he had wristbands, he had everything but any touch of nature; he was not like youth, he was not like age, he was not like anything in the world but a model of deportment.
 * Ch. 14

 * 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.
 * Ch. 19

 * 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.
 * Ch. 19

 * You are a human boy, my young friend. A human boy. O glorious to be a human boy!... O running stream of sparkling joy To be a soaring human boy!
 * Ch. 19

 * 'Don't you be afraid of hurting the boy,' he says.
 * Ch. 22

 * It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
 * Ch. 27

 * It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
 * Ch. 28

 * Never have a Mission, my dear child.
 * Ch. 30

 * Take care, while you are young, that you can think in those days, 'I never whitened a hair of her dear head, I never marked a sorrowful line in her face!' For of all the many things that you can think when you are a man, you had better have that by you, Woolwich!
 * Ch. 34

 * The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.
 * Ch. 39

 * My experience teaches me, Lady Dedlock, that most of the people I know would do far better to leave marriage alone. It is at the bottom of three fourths of their troubles.
 * Chapter 41

 * Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.
 * Ch. 47

 * Your sex have such a surprising animosity against one another when you do differ.
 * Ch. 54, Mr. Bucket to Mademoiselle Hortense

 * We are not rich in the bank, but we have always prospered and we have quite enough. I never walk out with my husband but I hear the people bless him. I never lie down at night, but I know that in the course of that day he has alleviated pain and soothed some fellow creature in the time of need. Is not this to be rich?
 * Ch. 67

Hard Times (1854)

 * Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!
 * Bk. I, Ch. 1

 * Oh my friends, the down-trodden operatives of Coketown! Oh my friends and fellow-countrymen, the slaves of an ironhanded and a grinding despotism! Oh my friends and fellow-sufferers, and fellow-workmen, and fellow-men! I tell you that the hour is come, when we must rally round one another as One united power, and crumble into dust the oppressors that too long have battened upon the plunder of our families, upon the sweat of our brows, upon the labour of our hands, upon the strength of our sinews, upon the God-created glorious rights of Humanity, and upon the holy and eternal privileges of Brotherhood!
 * Bk. II, Ch. 4

 * There is a wisdom of the Head, and … there is a wisdom of the Heart.
 * Bk. III, Ch. 1

Little Dorrit (1855-1857)

 * Full text online

 * 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.
 * Bk. I, Ch. 1

 * I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence.
 * Bk. I, Ch. 2

 * 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.
 * Bk. I, Ch. 10

 * Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving — HOW NOT TO DO IT.
 * Bk. I, Ch. 10

 * The Barnacles were a very high family, and a very large family. They were dispersed all over the public offices, and held all sorts of public places.  Either the nation was under a load of obligation to the Barnacles, or the Barnacles were under a load of obligation to the nation.  It was not quite unanimously settled which; the Barnacles having their opinion, the nation theirs.
 * Bk. I, Ch. 10

 * A person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs, to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking match.
 * Bk. I, Ch. 23

 * 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.
 * Bk. I, Ch. 11

 * I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.
 * Bk. I, Ch. 24

 * "Papa is a preferable mode of address," observed Mrs General. "Father is rather vulgar, my dear. The word Papa, besides, gives a pretty form to the lips. Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism are all very good words for the lips: especially prunes and prism. You will find it serviceable, in the formation of a demeanour, if you sometimes say to yourself in company — on entering a room, for instance — Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, prunes and prism.
 * Bk. II, Ch. 5

 * Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving HOW NOT TO DO IT.
 * Bk. II, Ch. 10

 * Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
 * Bk. II, Ch. 28

Great Expectations (1860-1861)

 * Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.
 * Ch. 2

 * Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together...
 * Ch. 27

 * Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.
 * Ch. 40

 * You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since, — on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made are not more real, or more impossible to be displaced by your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be. Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. But, in this separation, I associate you only with the good; and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you must have done me far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. O God bless you, God forgive you!
 * Ch. 44

 * 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.
 * Ch. 59

Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865)

 * Money and goods are certainly the best of references.
 * Bk. I, Ch. 4

 * Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry.
 * Bk. I, Ch. 5

 * I want to be something so much worthier than the doll in the doll's house.
 * Bk. I, Ch. 55

 * I don't care whether I am a Minx or a Sphinx.
 * Bk. II, Ch. 8

 * "And if it's proud to have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts," Miss Jenny struck in, flushed, "she is proud."
 * Bk. III, Ch. 2

 * That's the state to live and die in!...R-r-rich!
 * Bk. III, Ch. 5

 * We must scrunch or be scrunched.
 * Bk. III, Ch. 5

 * 'No one is useless in this world,' retorted the Secretary, 'who lightens the burden of it for any one else.'
 * Bk. III, Ch. 9

Misattributed

 * "Well, every one for himself, and Providence for us all--as the elephant said when he danced among the chickens."
 * Charles Reade, A Simpleton (1873)

Quotes about Dickens

 * Alphabetized by author

 * He had a fear of the dead, and of all inanimate things, rising up around him to claim him; it is the fear of the pre-eminently solitary child and solitary man.
 * Peter Ackroyd, Dickens (1990), Prologue, p. xii

 * The English writers who had a big influence on me during my adolescence were Sir Walter Scott, Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Charles Dickens, Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf.
 * Isabel Allende Interview

 * My own experience in reading Dickens...is to be bounced between violent admiration and violent distaste almost every couple of paragraphs, and this is too uncomfortable a condition to be much alleviated by an inward recital of one's duty not to be fastidious, to gulp the stuff down in gobbets like a man.
 * Kingsley Amis, What Became of Jane Austen? (1970)

 * I write about the black experience, because it's what I know. But I'm always talking about the human condition, what human beings feel and how we feel. Given these circumstances, a human being will react this way: he'll be happy, will weep, will celebrate, will fall. So my books are popular in Asia, in Africa, in Europe. Why would I, a black girl in the South, fall in love with Tolstoy or Dickens? I was Danton and Madame Defarge and all those people in A Tale of Two Cities. I was Daphne du Maurier and the Bronte sisters in a town where blacks were not allowed to cross the street. I was educated by those writers. Not about themselves and their people, but about me, what I could hope for.
 * 1983 interview in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989)

 * I was always interested in fair play, probably from reading the works of Paul Dunbar, Langston Hughes, and Charles Dickens as a child. I was always concerned about justice and injustice. To the extent that I could understand the issues, I was always on the side of the underdog. I'm on the same side today.
 * 1977 interview in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989)

 * There is no contemporary English writer whose works are read so generally through the whole house, who can give pleasure to the servants as well as to the mistress, to the children as well as to the master.
 * Walter Bagehot, in Charles Dickens in National Review (7 October 1858)

 * He describes London like a special correspondent for posterity.
 * Walter Bagehot, in Charles Dickens in National Review (7 October 1858)

 * When one begins looking for influences one finds them by the score. I haven't thought much about my own, not enough anyway; I hazard that the King James Bible, the rhetoric of the store-front church, something ironic and violent and perpetually understated in Negro speech — and something of Dickens' love for bravura — have something to do with me today; but I wouldn't stake my life on it. Likewise, innumerable people have helped me in many ways; but finally, I suppose, the most difficult (and most rewarding) thing in my life has been the fact that I was born a Negro and was forced, therefore, to effect some kind of truce with this reality. (Truce, by the way, is the best one can hope for.)
 * James Baldwin, Autobiographical Notes (1952)

 * You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people. An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are. He has to tell, because nobody else can tell, what it is like to be alive.
 * James Baldwin in "Doom and glory of knowing who you are" by Jane Howard, in LIFE magazine, Vol. 54, No. 21 (24 May 1963)

 * Of Dickens, dear friend, I know nothing. About a year ago, from idle curiousity, I picked up The Old Curiousity Shop, & of all the rotten vulgar un-literary writing...! Worse than George Eliot's. If a novelist can't write, where is the beggar?
 * Arnold Bennett, Letter to George Sturt, 6 February 1898, in Charles Dickens: The Critical Heritage ed. P. Collins (1995)

 * Dickens is greatest when most personal and lyrical, and... he is most lyrical when he puts himself in a child's place, and sees with a child's eyes. In the centre of his best stories sits a little human figure, dreaming, watching life as it might watch the faces in the fire.
 * Robert Buchanan, Master Spirits (1873), essay 'The Good Genie of Fiction'

 * It does not matter that Dicken's world is not lifelike; it is alive.
 * Lord David Cecil, Early Victorian Novelists (1934)

 * Dickens was personal in a more godlike sense; he could multiply persons. He could create all the farce and tragedy of his age over again, with creatures unborn to sin and creatures unborn to suffer. That which had not been achieved by the fierce facts of Cobbett, the burning dreams of Carlyle, the white-hot proofs of Newman, was really or very nearly achieved by a crowd of impossible people. In the centre stood that citadel of atheist industrialism: and if indeed it has ever been taken, it was taken by the rush of that unreal army.
 * G. K. Chesterton, The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)

 * But already the Utilitarian citadel had been more heavily bombarded on the other side by one lonely and unlettered man of genius. The rise of Dickens is like the rising of a vast mob. This is not only because his tales are indeed as crowded and populous as towns: for truly it was not so much that Dickens appeared as that a hundred Dickens characters appeared.
 * G. K. Chesterton, The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)

 * He had no learning; he was not misled by the label on the bottle—for that is what learning largely meant in his time. He opened his mouth and shut his eyes and saw what the Age of Reason would give him. And, having tasted it, he spat it out.
 * G. K. Chesterton, The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)

 * That is the truth in the suggestion that Dickens was sentimental. It means that he probably felt most sociable when he was solitary.
 * G. K. Chesterton, The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)

 * A mere sympathy for democratic merry-making and mourning will not make a man a writer like Dickens. But without that sympathy Dickens would not be a writer like Dickens; and probably not a writer at all.
 * G. K. Chesterton, The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)

 * This is the artistic greatness of Dickens, before and after which there is really nothing to be said. He had the power of creating people, both possible and impossible, who were simply precious and priceless people; and anything subtler added to that truth really only weakens it.
 * G. K. Chesterton, The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)

 * The twin root facts of the revolution called Dickens are these: first, that he attacked the cold Victorian compromise; second, that he attacked it without knowing he was doing it—certainly without knowing that other people were doing it. He was attacking something which we will call Mr. Gradgrind. He was utterly unaware (in any essential sense) that any one else had attacked Mr. Gradgrind. All the other attacks had come from positions of learning or cultured eccentricity of which he was entirely ignorant, and to which, therefore (like a spirited fellow), he felt a furious hostility.
 * G. K. Chesterton, The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)

 * But we should get the whole Victorian perspective wrong, in my opinion at least, if we did not see that Dickens was primarily the most successful of all the onslaughts on the solid scientific school; because he did not attack from the standpoint of extraordinary faith, like Newman; or the standpoint of extraordinary inspiration, like Carlyle; or the standpoint of extraordinary detachment or serenity, like Arnold; but from the standpoint of quite ordinary and quite hearty dislike.
 * G. K. Chesterton, The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)

 * The art of Dickens was the most exquisite of arts: it was the art of enjoying everybody. Dickens, being a very human writer, had to be a very human being; he had his faults and sensibilities in a strong degree; and I do not for a moment maintain that he enjoyed everybody in his daily life. But he enjoyed everybody in his books: and everybody has enjoyed everybody in his books even till to-day. His books are full of baffled villains stalking out or cowardly bullies kicked downstairs. But the villains and cowards are such delightful people that the reader always hopes the villain will put his head through a side window and make a last remark; or that the bully will say one more thing, even from the bottom of the stairs. The reader really hopes this; and he cannot get rid of the fancy that the author hopes so too.
 * G. K. Chesterton, The Victorian Age in Literature (1913) [University of Notre Dame Press, 1963], Ch. II: The Great Victorian Novelists, p. 60

 * Dickens did not merely believe in the brotherhood of man in the weak modern way; he was the brotherhood of man, and knew it was a brotherhood in sin as well as in aspiration.
 * G.K. Chesterton, The Victorian Age in Literature (1913), Ch. II: The Great Victorian Novelists, p. 62

 * No gypsy on earth is a greater vagabond than myself.
 * Charles Dickens, The Uncommercial Traveller, Chapter X,

 * And on that grave where English oak and holly And laurel wreaths entwine, Deem it not all a too presumptuous folly, This spray of Western pine!
 * Bret Harte, Dickens in Camp (1870), stanza 10

 * One of Dickens’s most striking peculiarities is that, whenever in his writing he becomes emotional, he ceases instantly to use his intelligence. The overflowing of his heart drowns his head and even dims his eyes; for, whenever he is in the melting mood, Dickens ceases to be able and probably ceases even to wish to see reality. His one and only desire on these occasions is just to overflow, nothing else. Which he does, with a vengeance and in an atrocious blank verse that is meant to be poetical prose and succeeds only in being the worst kind of fustian... Mentally drowned and blinded by the sticky overflowings of his heart, Dickens was incapable, when moved, of recreating, in terms of art, the reality which had moved him, was even, it would seem, unable to perceive that reality.
 * Aldous Huxley. Collected Essays. Vulgarity in Literature.

 * The greatest of superficial novelists... It were, in our opinion, an offense against humanity to place Mr Dickens among the greatest novelists.
 * Henry James, review of Our Mutual Friend in The Nation (21 December 1865)

 * There is a heartlessness behind his sentimentally overflowing style.
 * Franz Kafka, diary entry( 8 October 1917)

 * I'm teaching Dickens now in my English class [at Berkeley], and the narrator is always an even distance away from the other people. The nineteenth-century God is not that far away-he is not right next door either-but he keeps an even, middle distance away from people.
 * 1991 interview in Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston (1998)

 * One day I realized my whole life has taught me Freudianism is nonsense. My father was a sociopath and an alcoholic, and I had a terrible childhood. I didn't grow up to be a criminal or have any of the problems that I'm supposed to have. Look at Ted Bundy, who had a normal childhood but grew up to be what he was. I made a conscious decision to stop writing Freudian characters because I realized that the best characters I've ever read are in Dickens, and he never heard of Freud. I've gotten some reviews where people say my characters aren't deep enough because we don't know why they are the way they are. One of my editors once said, "We don't know what's in this guy's past that made him what he is now." He wanted me to go back and show how his parents abused him. Trite Freudian stuff. In Dickens, the idea was that character is what you do, and that's what defines you. I think that makes sense. I believe in free will and individual choice and that we make our own lives as we go along.
 * Dean Koontz, as quoted in Nick Gillespie & Lisa Snell, Contemplating Evil: Novelist Dean Koontz on Freud, fraud, and the Great Society, Reason magazine, 1996

 * I see the line of my stories being awfully simple. It's not that I want to write mysteries, I'm talking about something more like what Dickens did, pulling strands together, weaving something I'm not very good at that. I just plunge ahead. Or I do it by trickery, by zig-zagging.
 * 1982 interview in Conversations with Ursula Le Guin

 * Not much of Dickens will live, because it has no little correspondence to life. He was the incarnation of cockneydom, a caricaturist who aped the moralist; he should have kept to short stories. If his novels are read at all in the future, people will wonder what we saw in them, save some possible element of fun meaningless to them. The world will never let Mr. Pickwick, who to me is full of the lumber of imbecility, share honors with Don Quixote.
 * George Meredith, in Edward Clodd, Memories (1916)

 * A splendid muse of fiction hath Charles Dickens, But now and then just as the interest thickens He stilts his pathos, and the reader sickens.
 * Augustus de Morgan, quoted in Henry Crabb Robinsons's diary (17 March 1865)

 * Dickens is one of those writers who are well worth stealing. Even the burial of his body in Westminster Abbey was a species of theft, if you come to think of it. When Chesterton wrote his introductions to the Everyman Edition of Dickens’s works, it seemed quite natural to him to credit Dickens with his own highly individual brand of medievalism, and more recently a Marxist writer, Mr. T. A. Jackson, has made spirited efforts to turn Dickens into a blood-thirsty revolutionary. The Marxist claims him as ‘almost’ a Marxist, the Catholic claims him as ‘almost’ a Catholic, and both claim him as a champion of the proletariat (or ‘the poor’, as Chesterton would have put it).
 * When one reads any strongly individual piece of writing, one has the impression of seeing a face somewhere behind the page. It is not necessarily the actual face of the writer. I feel this very strongly with Swift, with Defoe, with Fielding, Stendhal, Thackeray, Flaubert, though in several cases I do not know what these people looked like and do not want to know. What one sees is the face that the writer ought to have. Well, in the case of Dickens I see a face that is not quite the face of Dickens's photographs, though it resembles it. It is the face of a man of about forty, with a small beard and a high colour. He is laughing, with a touch of anger in his laughter, but no triumph, no malignity. It is the face of a man who is always fighting against something, but who fights in the open and is not frightened, the face of a man who is generously angry — in other words, of a nineteenth-century liberal, a free intelligence, a type hated with equal hatred by all the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls.
 * George Orwell, in Charles Dickens (1939), also in Inside the Whale and Other Essays (1940)

 * In Oliver Twist, Hard Times, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Dickens attacked English institutions with a ferocity that has never since been approached. Yet he managed to do it without making himself hated, and, more than this, the very people he attacked have swallowed him so completely that he has become a national institution himself. In its attitude towards Dickens the English public has always been a little like the elephant which feels a blow with a walking-stick as a delightful tickling. Before I was ten years old I was having Dickens ladled down my throat by schoolmasters in whom even at that age I could see a strong resemblance to Mr. Creakle, and one knows without needing to be told that lawyers delight in Sergeant Buzfuz and that Little Dorrit is a favourite in the Home Office. Dickens seems to have succeeded in attacking everybody and antagonizing nobody.
 * George Orwell, in "Charles Dickens" (1939), also in Inside the Whale and Other Essays (1940)

 * If Dickens were alive to-day he would make a trip to Soviet Russia and come back with a book rather like Gide's Retour de L'URSS.
 * George Orwell, in "Charles Dickens (1939), A Collection of Essays

 * North and South (by Elizabeth Gaskell) is really a very fine piece of work. A lot of North and South has that whole awful industrial growth in it, and she does naturally a lot better by her ladies than Dickens does, so it's really worth reading for that.
 * 1981 interview in Conversations with Grace Paley

 * Who calls him spurious and shoddy Shall do it over my lifeless body. I heartily invite such birds To come outside and say those words!
 * Dorothy Parker in "A Pig's-Eye View of Literature" from Sunset Gun (1927)

 * I was exposed to Dickens, Dumas, Victor Hugo, de Maupassant, Balzac.
 * Muriel Rukeyser “The Education of a Poet” (1976)

 * Dickens was a pure modernist — a leader of the steam-whistle party par excellence — and he had no understanding of any power of antiquity except a sort of jackdaw sentiment for cathedral towers. He knew nothing of the nobler power of superstition — was essentially a stage manager, and used everything for effect on the pit. His Christmas meant mistletoe and pudding — neither resurrection from dead, nor rising of new stars, nor teaching of wise men, nor shepherds. His hero is essentially the ironmaster.
 * John Ruskin, in a letter to Charles Eliot Norton (17n June 1870)

 * When people say Dickens exaggerates, it seems to me they can have no eyes and no ears. They probably have only notions of what things and people are: they accept them conventionally at their diplomatic value. Their minds run on in the region of discourse, where there are masks only, and no faces; ideas and no facts; they have little sense for those living grimaces that play from moment to moment on the countenance of the world.
 * George Santayana, "Dickens," Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)

 * One of the greatest books ever written in the English language was called Little Dorrit, and as soon as Englishmen realised that Little Dorrit was true there would be a revolution.
 * George Bernard Shaw, in "Charles Dickens and Little Dorrit (1908), in The DIckensian, Vol. 4, p. 323

 *  Little Dorrit is a more seditious book than Das Kapital. All over Europe men and women are in prison for pamphlets and speeches which are to Little Dorrit as red pepper to dynamite. Fortunately for social evolution Governments never know where to strike. Barnacle and Stiltstalking were far too conceited to recognize their own portraits.
 * George Bernard Shaw, in an Introduction to a 1947 editions of Great Expectations

 * The soul of Hogarth has migrated into the body of Dickens.
 * Sydney Smith, in a letter dated 1837

 * When I was a child I devoured Dickens. I think there is hardly any volume of Dickens' work that I have not read. There was something that fascinated me about the kind of life he depicted and I remember that in school I read literally all Dickens' novels. I think there was a kind of exotic nature - the transitional life of Victorian England that he captured was to me so exotic.
 * Wole Soyinka in Talking with African Writers by Jane Wilkinson

 * He had a large loving mind and the strongest sympathy with the poorer classes. He felt sure a better feeling, and much greater union of classes, would take place in time. And I pray earnestly it may.
 * Queen Victoria, in a diary entry (11 June 1870)

 * He had his literary weaknesses, Charles Dickens, but they were all dear, big, attractive ones, virtues grown a bit wild and rank. Somehow when you put him -- with his elemental humor, his inexhaustible vitality, his humanity, sympathy, and pity -- beside the Impeccables, he always looms large.
 * Kate Douglas Wiggin, ''A Child's Journey with Dickens (1912)

 * His eye brings in almost too rich a harvest for him to deal with, and gives him an aloofness and a hardness which freeze his sentimentalism and make it seem a concession to the public, a veil thrown over the penetrating glance which left to itself pierced to the bone. With such a power at his command Dickens made his books blaze up, not by tightening the plot or sharpening the wit, but by throwing another handful of people on the fire.
 * Virginia Woolf, "David Copperfield" (1925), The Moment and Other Essays (1947)

 * In fact, the real problem with the thesis of A Genealogy of Morals is that the noble and the aristocrat are just as likely to be stupid as the plebeian. I had noted in my teens that major writers are usually those who have had to struggle against the odds -- to "pull their cart out of the mud," as I put it -- while writers who have had an easy start in life are usually second rate -- or at least, not quite first-rate. Dickens, Balzac, Dostoevsky, Shaw, H. G. Wells, are examples of the first kind; in the twentieth century, John Galsworthy, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, and Samuel Beckett are examples of the second kind. They are far from being mediocre writers; yet they tend to be tinged with a certain pessimism that arises from never having achieved a certain resistance against problems.
 * Colin Wilson in The Books In My Life, p. 188

 * Of all the Victorian novelists, he was probably the most antagonistic to the Victorian age itself.
 * Edmund Wilson, The Wound and the Bow (1941)

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Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Ninam. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Ninam~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:30, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:53, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

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User talk:Dairemmei

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title: User talk:Dairemmei