A Tale of Two Cities (1938) Quotes with Sound Clips

A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

Listen to memorable quotes of Charles Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities", as brought to life by Orson Welles in this rare 1938 Mercury Theatre radio play, featuring sound clips.

Actors: Orson Welles (Sydney Carton, Doctor Manette), Edgar Barrier (Charles Darnay), Betty Garde (Madame Defarge), Mary Taylor (Lucie Manette), Martin Gabel (Jarvis Lorry)

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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.

All our lives we have seen our women suffer: poverty, hunger, thirst, sickness, misery. -We have seen nothing else. -We have borne this a long time.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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