24 Quotes by Charles Dickens (Sound Clips) - page 2

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11 I neither want any thanks or merit any. It was nothing to do in the first place, and I don't know why I did it in the second.

Orson Welles as Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

12 He sobbed twelve times, once for every stroke of the bell, and died on her bosom.

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

13 And them, and their descendants, to the last of their race, I, Alexandre Manette, unhappy prisoner, do, this last night of the year 1767, in my unbearable agony, denounce them to heaven and to earth.

Orson Welles as Doctor Manette in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

14 The sound of an old man making shoes in the dark.

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

15 Messenger? -Yes, sir. -Take back my answer to London. Here it is: 'Recalled to life'.

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

16 Is it possible? Yes, it is possible in this fine world we live in. Not only possible, but done. Done, see? Under that sky there, every day. It'll continue being done until the last of that accursed race has perished in the face of the earth.

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

17 You can bear a little more light? -I must bear it. If you let it in.

Orson Welles as Doctor Manette in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

18 Her husband's destiny will take him where he is to go, and will lead him to the end that is to end him. That is all I know.

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

19 I know very well that you can have no tenderness for me. I ask for none. I'm even thankful that it cannot be.

Orson Welles as Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

20 Just Heaven! Under what law? For what offense? -We have new laws, Aristocrat, and new offenses since you were here.

Edgar Barrier as Charles Darnay in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)