Hard Times is a Victorian novel by Charles Dickens. It's short, and it's viewed as a powerful depiction of the horrors of 19th-century industrialization. Here are quotes from Hard Times...
- "Facts alone are wanted in life." - Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Book 1, Chapter 1
- "A man of realities. A man of facts and calculations. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over." - Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Book 1, Chapter 2
- "It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage." - Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Book 1, Chapter 5
- "You don't expect to be set up in a coach and six, and to be fed on turtle soup and venison, with a gold spoon, as a good many of 'em do!" - Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Book 1, Chapter 11
- "There's a sanctity in this relation of life..." - Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Book 1, Chapter 11
- "'Tis a muddle." - Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Book 1, Chapter 11
- "I assure you I attach not the least importance to any opinions." - Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Book 2, Chapter 2
- "Some persons hold . . . that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart." - Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Book 3, Chapter 1
- "The star had shown him where to find the God of the poor; and through humility, and sorrow, and forgiveness, he had gone to his Redeemer's rest." - Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Book 3, Chapter 6
- 10. "Oh, Tom, Tom, do we end so, after all my love!" - Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Book 3, Chapter 7
