Quotes about Transformation
The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become.
— Charles Dickens
And I wondered when I peeped into one or two on the lower tiers, and saw the tied-up brown paper packets inside, whether the flower-seeds and bulbs ever wanted of a fine day to break out of those jails, and bloom.
— Charles Dickens
settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual
— Charles Dickens
In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.
— Charles Dickens
For again Scrooge saw himself. He was older now, a man in the prime of life. His face had not the harsh and rigid lines of later years, but it had begun to wear the signs of care and avarice. There was an eager, greedy, restless motion in the eye, which showed the passion that had taken root, and where the shadow of the growing tree would fall.
— Charles Dickens
lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications
— Charles Dickens
Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more.
— Charles Dickens
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; It is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
— Charles Dickens
I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!" Scrooge repeated, as he scrambled out of bed. "The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. Oh Jacob Marley! Heaven, and the Christmas Time be praised for this!
— Charles Dickens
I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!" Scrooge repeated, as he scrambled out of bed. "The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. O Jacob Marley! Heaven and the Christmas-time be praised for this! I say it on my knees, old Jacob, on my knees!
— Charles Dickens
The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece
— Charles Dickens
Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let hem laugh, and little heeded them; fore he was wise enough to know that nothin ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset
— Charles Dickens