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

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

— Jarvis Lorry (Martin Gabel)

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

— Madame Defarge (Betty Garde)

13 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.

— Jarvis Lorry (Martin Gabel)

14 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.

— Sydney Carton, Doctor Manette (Orson Welles), Sydney Carton

15 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.

— Sydney Carton, Doctor Manette (Orson Welles), Sydney Carton

16 Hope has quite departed from my breast.

— Sydney Carton, Doctor Manette (Orson Welles), Doctor Manette

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

— Charles Darnay (Edgar Barrier)

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

— Jarvis Lorry (Martin Gabel)

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

— Sydney Carton, Doctor Manette (Orson Welles), Doctor Manette

20 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.

— Sydney Carton, Doctor Manette (Orson Welles), Doctor Manette

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