Sydney Carton Movie Quotes & Lines – 10 Classics (+ 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 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)

4 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)

5 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)

6 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)

7 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, Doctor Manette; Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

8 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, Doctor Manette; Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

9 So we're not much alike in that particular. Indeed, I begin to think we're not much alike in any particular... you and I, except that we look alike.

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

10 What health? What toast? -Why, It's on the tip of your tongue. Ought to be and must be. I swear it's there.

Sydney Carton, Charles Darnay (Edgar Barrier) in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)