charles dickens: 24 Movie Quotes with Audio

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1 Don't be afraid. I'll never refer to this again, only in the hour of my death I shall hold sacred this one good remembrance that my last avowal of myself was made to you, and that my name and faults, and miseries were gently carried in your heart.

Orson Welles as Sydney Carton, Doctor Manette; Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

2 For you and for any dear to you, I would do anything. Remember sometimes. Remember that there is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you.

Orson Welles as Sydney Carton, Doctor Manette; Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

3 It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I've ever done. It is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

Orson Welles as Sydney Carton, Doctor Manette; Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

4 I write these words with a rusty iron point dipped in scrapings of soot and charcoal from the chimney, mixed with blood.

Orson Welles as Sydney Carton, Doctor Manette; Doctor Manette in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

5 No, I shall never be better than I am. I'm like one who died young. All my life might have been.

Orson Welles as Sydney Carton, Doctor Manette; Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

6 Now that you've eaten, do you feel that you belong to this terrestrial scheme again? It must be an immense satisfaction for you. Waiter, another bottle of wine! To me, the greatest desire I have is to forget that I belong to it.

Orson Welles as Sydney Carton, Doctor Manette; Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

7 The wives and mothers we have been used to see have not been greatly pitied.

Betty Garde as Madame Defarge in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

8 The words are written, in scrapings of soot mixed with blood, on scraps of crumbling paper. There they lie hidden away in the solid stone, year after year.

Martin Gabel as Jarvis Lorry in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

9 A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

Orson Welles as Sydney Carton, Doctor Manette; Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

10 All day, tumbrils go through the streets, feeding the guillotine, and at its foot, splashed with blood, sit the women knitting late into the night, counting dropping heads.

Martin Gabel as Jarvis Lorry in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)