Famous Quotations from Charles Dickens

I’m going to share with you some quotations from the famous English novelist, Charles Dickens (1812-1870). I hope you find the quotations thought-provoking, and perhaps you’ll feel inspired to read one of his novels, or watch one of the many film versions of his stories. I will read and discuss quotations from Great Expectations, The Old Curiosity Shop, Hard Times, David Copperfield, and Barnaby Rudge. www.engvid.com/famous-quotati...
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In this lesson:
0:00 Who was Charles Dickens?
2:12 Quote from "Great Expectations"
3:35 Quote from "The Old Curiosity Shop"
6:50 Quote from "Hard Times"
8:19 Quote from "David Copperfield"
14:16 Quote from "Barnaby Rudge"

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  • @engvidGill
    @engvidGill5 ай бұрын

    Thank you all so much for watching! If you liked this lesson, watch my lesson on famous Shakespeare quotations: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qKCk05RtYdu3hNo.html My video about terms for new and old British currency will also help you understand classic English novels: kzread.info/dash/bejne/gZd_09x7adPegdo.html

  • @aysegulgoknar

    @aysegulgoknar

    5 ай бұрын

    Thank You to You too, merry Christmas and happy new years ahead Dear Gill, greetings from Türkiye😘🤗🤞🙏!

  • @muhammetatilla54444

    @muhammetatilla54444

    4 ай бұрын

    İmam Mahti , KZread: Hilafeti Muhammediye

  • @user-sl9dp9hp3q

    @user-sl9dp9hp3q

    4 ай бұрын

    Good, thanks i am an english teacher yozr lectures are very useful for me! I know english classic lectreture and American writers and also the books which a have read.

  • @user-sl9dp9hp3q

    @user-sl9dp9hp3q

    4 ай бұрын

    Your its correct

  • @williamblake5198

    @williamblake5198

    3 ай бұрын

    Stop thinking that people are stupid. Those who are are the ones watching your videos and enjoying them. Do not annunciate and explain carefully what a word or a phrase means: if people do not know what the hell you are talking about they can search it up. It takes three seconds to say, ‘Today’s lesson is on an English authors’, but You chose to dwell on it for more than 8 or so seconds. I do not feel bad that less people are watching you, you deserve it.

  • @user-zi9wz8pb1e
    @user-zi9wz8pb1e4 ай бұрын

    Hello, Jill! Your mini-lectures are just wonderful! I'd say they are breathtaking! Thank you so much from Russia.

  • @marzenagodek425
    @marzenagodek4255 ай бұрын

    Thank you very much. Gill is the best teacher! I love especially her lessons about literature. It’s not only English lessons… amazing👏

  • 5 ай бұрын

    So here she comes to enlighten us! Love and good vibrations from Brazil to you! Merry Christmas!

  • @TekCroach
    @TekCroach5 ай бұрын

    Haha. It seems like a universal truth that Dickens has put into words about women’s age. A nice and calm English lesson as usual. Love you Gill ❤

  • @invisibleinvisible83
    @invisibleinvisible835 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much 🙏🏻🌹❤️, the best teacher 🌹

  • @Learn_English_with_Mansura
    @Learn_English_with_Mansura5 ай бұрын

    Hi Gill, I really love to see your online classes. Best regards, Mansura

  • @KonstantinEgorovSpb
    @KonstantinEgorovSpb5 ай бұрын

    Some of the old quots are never obsolete. They come handy now and again and I, for one , love using them, not being afraid to sound old-fashioned 🙂 Such a pleasure to listen to your calm, thoughtful explanations, Gill🤝❄️♥️

  • @vivianagambetta9197
    @vivianagambetta91975 ай бұрын

    Great to see you again Gill , you are adorable❤

  • @diamondplus3671
    @diamondplus36715 ай бұрын

    Great our teacher❤

  • @lucianojanducci9907
    @lucianojanducci99075 ай бұрын

    Thanks for the lesson.

  • @josemarques6971
    @josemarques69715 ай бұрын

    Once again, Thank you for all of yours lessons.

  • @devjanichakraborty6204
    @devjanichakraborty62045 ай бұрын

    Dear Ma'am Gill, This was a fantastic lesson with the caption " Famous Quotations From Charles Dickens !" Amongst these novels Great Expectations and David Copperfield are very well known to the readers. The quotations perhaps help us to relate well to the content of the book and give us quite an enriched feeling ! Thanks for coming up with these wonderful quotations, which are true to all times !😊

  • @devjanichakraborty6204

    @devjanichakraborty6204

    5 ай бұрын

    Dear Ma'am Gill, Wish you and your family a Merry Christmas ! ( December 25 ) May God bless you !😊

  • @kadowaluna1
    @kadowaluna15 ай бұрын

    Hello, is wonderful to see you grateful video, thank you, is very nice….greetings from a Mexican person living in Japan…

  • @enshadmohamed8264
    @enshadmohamed82643 ай бұрын

    Charles Dickens is the best writer I knew from my father 15 years ago ❤❤..

  • @marinacatanese1029
    @marinacatanese10294 ай бұрын

    Every year, in December,I read A Christmas Carol!! I love Dickens ( all his works, indeed)

  • @user-hg2ih8hf7x
    @user-hg2ih8hf7x3 ай бұрын

    Love your lessons!❤ You're such a good teacher!😊🌹 Love Dickens and good quotes! I've read Dickens in both Swedish and English! Greetings from Sweden!🇸🇪 Thanks for proper English subtitles!🙏 Wisdom of the head and wisdom the heart, so true! A minister at my church used to say "the longest distance in the world is that from our head to our heart"!

  • @user-re9ch3ig6r
    @user-re9ch3ig6r5 ай бұрын

    Спасибо вам за уроки! Читала в детстве Ч. Диккенса .Захотелось перечитать снова.

  • @themegajediOBVM

    @themegajediOBVM

    3 ай бұрын

    HI there. It's another one English learner from Russia like me.

  • @tinasnotes
    @tinasnotes5 ай бұрын

    Thank you for such a great video. So glad that I found you on KZread.

  • @redaelouamari8541
    @redaelouamari85414 ай бұрын

    This lady, Gill, has the most "British" accent I have ever heard. Love from an English teacher in Morocco. 🇲🇦❤️🇬🇧

  • @BC-xf9qb
    @BC-xf9qb4 ай бұрын

    Thank you Gill I love the way you address your audience so cool so simple and so intelligent

  • @walayatwali888
    @walayatwali8885 ай бұрын

    Thanks Madam you are doing great job. There is lot of space to be filled in this field.

  • @JuliaDutta
    @JuliaDutta5 ай бұрын

    Merry Christmas Gill! A Christmas Carol, David Coperfield, are my favourites. He wrote on so many topics, and as you read some qoutations from his booka, I thought, oh me, oh my, isn't that strange, that they mean the same today as they did in those days. I guess, their thoughts made the world richer my many ways. I read Charles Dickens in the Senior Classes in School with a very well read Teacher.

  • @manjirabanerjee7169
    @manjirabanerjee71695 ай бұрын

    Hello Gill ,thank you for this brilliant lesson.Dickens is my fav Victorian novelist .❤️

  • @user-my2nj3jz4p
    @user-my2nj3jz4p5 ай бұрын

    I read some of his books in English or Japanese, at this season every year I read Christmas Carol.

  • @alfieromonteverdi7980
    @alfieromonteverdi79805 ай бұрын

    Thanks Gill for your amazing lesson on Dickens. You aren’t only an English teacher you are also an excellent economist. Your explanation of inflation and borrowing is fantastic. Word of economist. I’ll never ask your age !!! Take care.

  • @wesleysneider9112
    @wesleysneider91125 ай бұрын

    I want to see you one day by visiting you in England if I can afford it dear teacher. Thanks to your support I learn English deeply and effectively. A lot of respect from Türkiye

  • @borhanuddin6725
    @borhanuddin67254 ай бұрын

    Gill, am happy to see you being alive.

  • @gabriellagirardi4741
    @gabriellagirardi47415 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much for this beautiful lesson. Merry Christmas ❤⭐️🌲⭐️🌲

  • @bongwool0619
    @bongwool06193 ай бұрын

    I love your elegant accent and the way you structure your lectures. Subscribed it just now

  • @user-kn2qz3tf9d
    @user-kn2qz3tf9d3 ай бұрын

    David Copperfield has been called 'the hero of the novel'. I thought a hero is only the character who saves the world. Thank you for the language insight.

  • @viviwil30
    @viviwil304 ай бұрын

    Thank YOU very much, Gill.

  • @gelisabethelisabeth
    @gelisabethelisabeth4 ай бұрын

    Hello dear hope you are doing great in all the aspects of your life. And don’t worry about stupid rude people. Because here we don’t any right to ask questions about your private life. We must be thanksgiving for the free lessons that you give us for boosting our English. I too must have to thank you 🙏 for the lessons that you give here. I follow you very often. But not yet everyday because I am at school and I don’t have a lot of time. But I feel blessed with you lessons and isn’t a hypocrite from my part it’s absolutely right to tell you thanks 🙏. Have a nice afternoon God bless you dear

  • @tomrox8921
    @tomrox89215 ай бұрын

    It is good idea not to ask somebody's age, whether man or woman. Thank you Gill. Still alot to learn from british classics.

  • @Alanatrans
    @Alanatrans4 ай бұрын

    My best teatch of the english, I love you gil, thanks so much for your class, here in youtube channel. tanks so much.

  • @mykolabaidiuk1445
    @mykolabaidiuk14455 ай бұрын

    Thank you! Very useful and interesting.

  • @user-qy3yb5ux4o
    @user-qy3yb5ux4o4 ай бұрын

    I'm from Iraq. I'm very interested in your lessons and enjoyed the way you introduce them. I do like your pronunciation. Thank you much for the awesome subjects you introduce to your followers.

  • @eustaquiozambrano2974
    @eustaquiozambrano29745 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much. Have a nice weekend 👍

  • @TheDuoduo16
    @TheDuoduo165 ай бұрын

    Thank you Gil you are a fantastic Teacher...I wish you a very wonderful Marry Christmas to you and your Family.. Soon

  • @user-ce4xs4vd4l
    @user-ce4xs4vd4l4 ай бұрын

    Thank you very much, my teacher. Your pronunciation is the best in KZread. I can understand everything you say.

  • @user-ce4xs4vd4l

    @user-ce4xs4vd4l

    4 ай бұрын

    We like classical Britain literature in Russia.

  • @user-em4kh9gb1l
    @user-em4kh9gb1l5 ай бұрын

    Thanks so much for sharing! Merry Christmas from Spain!

  • @pajeetgupta5
    @pajeetgupta54 ай бұрын

    Charles Dickens was a brillaint and witty author 👍🏼

  • @kaoyirengoku4023
    @kaoyirengoku40235 ай бұрын

    Charles Dickens is one of my favourite writters.

  • @fatioudih715
    @fatioudih7155 ай бұрын

    It's very interesting, I hope you could talk about the works of Emily Bronte. Thank you madam. ❤🙏

  • @user-zi3ks7ov3r
    @user-zi3ks7ov3r4 ай бұрын

    What a nice woman! I like her lessons. Greetings from Russia!

  • @paraskeva8639
    @paraskeva86395 ай бұрын

    Hi, Gill! Thank you for your lesson! It was really interesting! Merry Christmas! ❤

  • @fernandomilicich8160
    @fernandomilicich81605 ай бұрын

    Thanks a lot, and Merry Christmas . Greetings from Argentina.

  • @SeaSoulArt
    @SeaSoulArt4 ай бұрын

    Great video! it's the very interesting history, thank you for sharing it

  • @svilenart
    @svilenart4 ай бұрын

    Happy New Year and Thanks so much for everything!❤

  • @hanimoawad7988
    @hanimoawad79884 ай бұрын

    You are a great teacher !

  • @jorgeserratopena
    @jorgeserratopena5 ай бұрын

    Saludos desde el municipio de Soledad Atlantico Colombia, zipote de bulla con un pick up de un vecino escandalozo😂

  • @ninagaut
    @ninagaut5 ай бұрын

    I have the complete works of the writer translated in Russian. In Russia we know Charles Dickens very well.

  • @user-ce4xs4vd4l

    @user-ce4xs4vd4l

    4 ай бұрын

    Great Russia 🇷🇺 is the best country in the world.

  • @user-ce4xs4vd4l

    @user-ce4xs4vd4l

    4 ай бұрын

    It is like Dostoevsky in Russia.

  • @themegajediOBVM

    @themegajediOBVM

    3 ай бұрын

    Hi there! It's so wonderful to see here a Russian English learner! I'm also a Russian. I'm glad to see you here a lot.

  • @user-hg2ih8hf7x

    @user-hg2ih8hf7x

    3 ай бұрын

    I really like the Russian author Vladimir Sorokin, I read his books in Swedish though!

  • @nataliajeneson1818

    @nataliajeneson1818

    Ай бұрын

    Совсем ни к чему ваш комментарий. Свои худшие стороны Россия показала,нот на долго затмят ее лучшие стороны.​@@user-ce4xs4vd4l

  • @RohullahSerat
    @RohullahSerat4 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much ma'am I'm keep follow you from Kabul Afghanistan🇦🇫

  • @user-dm1vs8be3k
    @user-dm1vs8be3k5 ай бұрын

    Thank you very much for the lesson! As always, it was useful and interesting!

  • @susanfarahi656
    @susanfarahi65610 күн бұрын

    Thank you mother❤

  • @hebaallahhassan3911
    @hebaallahhassan39115 ай бұрын

    İ'll studied the hard time story before when I was secondry school I'll love it this novel ❤🌹😍 İ'am from Egypt

  • @user-um7cf8nt1q
    @user-um7cf8nt1q5 ай бұрын

    Дякую, дуже цікаве та корисне відео!

  • @user-lh9lc9lo8l
    @user-lh9lc9lo8l4 ай бұрын

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Dear Jill, thank you for your excellent lessons . Nerry Christmas🎄🎅🔔❄ abd Happy new year 2024. The knowledge is so important, anyway. Sincerely Larisa , at the monent my great thought is about your method of teaching that is quite perfect. Thank you.

  • @BC-xf9qb
    @BC-xf9qb4 ай бұрын

    Happy New year Gill you are the best

  • @uchetvault
    @uchetvault4 ай бұрын

    Started to watch this video just to give it a thumb up, but couldn't stop watching it until the end. Thanks. PS. I also wouldn't mind knowing your age. It's okay.

  • @user-ok9xq2qc6o
    @user-ok9xq2qc6o4 ай бұрын

    Happy New Year to Gill.

  • @adelaaae4906
    @adelaaae49065 ай бұрын

    “Humbugs” & Happy Christmas to you 🌟

  • @user-Yangyuqian
    @user-Yangyuqian5 ай бұрын

    I love this time viedo. Please sir I want more ~~~

  • @blackhair8264
    @blackhair82643 ай бұрын

    wonderful ♥

  • @naceroune
    @naceroune5 ай бұрын

    Thank you 🎉🎉.

  • @hironio4323
    @hironio43234 ай бұрын

    Very interesting!

  • @ewakozak5523
    @ewakozak55235 ай бұрын

    Thank you❤

  • @juanlaurenciomueses4437
    @juanlaurenciomueses44375 ай бұрын

    Nice!

  • @dbrncdailychannel1879
    @dbrncdailychannel18795 ай бұрын

    Obrigado

  • @winstonfraser7784
    @winstonfraser77844 ай бұрын

    Hii teacher thank you for sharing so happy new year to you

  • @user-is2cw1jp9q
    @user-is2cw1jp9q4 ай бұрын

    Charles Dickens is an artist to have been drawing the pictures not applying the paints but the words. To render the brightness for his narratives he often used the language of not educated people whereas it has turned out to be necessary. It was difficult for me as not native speaker to make out what they had spoken.

  • @user-ok9xq2qc6o
    @user-ok9xq2qc6o4 ай бұрын

    Happy New Year to Gill. Daisy from Hong Kong

  • @ann-cathrinandersen9412
    @ann-cathrinandersen94125 ай бұрын

    Merry Christmas Gil !

  • @janbagyamtso9507
    @janbagyamtso95074 ай бұрын

    Thank ❤

  • @peterfong8777
    @peterfong87775 ай бұрын

    Thanks.

  • @-J-U-P-I-T-E-R-
    @-J-U-P-I-T-E-R-5 ай бұрын

    Merry Christmas ✨ Gill✨

  • @user-th2wv2ow8s
    @user-th2wv2ow8sАй бұрын

    I like the word "sundry" (different) from old shop, but some says this word is not using

  • @luisaugustobonilha8210
    @luisaugustobonilha82104 ай бұрын

    I love Gill's classes. By the way, How old are you? Kkk, just a joke! Merry Christmas and happy new year!

  • @almajd2130
    @almajd21304 ай бұрын

    Happy new year 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🤩👑🎊🎉

  • @HolyHaxorMcGrath
    @HolyHaxorMcGrath5 ай бұрын

    tu 3:35 "women talk about through their feeling,instead off" "women talk through thoughts,rather than feeling" Am I being rudenessly Mrs.Gill? Dementedly I demandingly idea's are DIVINE.

  • @muhammadsalama4740
    @muhammadsalama47404 ай бұрын

    For me He was and still the best writer in the history

  • @arturdealmeidamelo3558
    @arturdealmeidamelo35585 ай бұрын

    Dear Gill l wish you a marry christimas and a happy new year!!!💓

  • @comeconcon569
    @comeconcon5694 ай бұрын

    Gill has been living in my house for so long that she has become part of the furniture.😄

  • @user-bh6ys5ds4o
    @user-bh6ys5ds4o3 ай бұрын

    Perfect lady.

  • @rebujha
    @rebujha4 ай бұрын

    it is not only in ok that u can’t ask age of an adult it is rule which everybody has follow but many do not

  • @user-dy2sm3ws7o
    @user-dy2sm3ws7o5 ай бұрын

    It's amazing, but I understand your speech and the meaning. why don't I understand other people who speak English as their native language when I watch movies

  • @user-Yangyuqian
    @user-Yangyuqian5 ай бұрын

    Cool, my paper is Oliver Twist film adaptation!!! haha~

  • @hocine6817
    @hocine68175 ай бұрын

    Hello, we should ask how many years passed until now? Beacause no body can knows his age until he goes there.

  • @natadida
    @natadida5 ай бұрын

    Hello Gill! When some impolite person asks me how old am I, I answer "I'm always 25 in my soul!"😄 Greetings from Ukraine and Merry Christmas!❤🎄

  • @pengobatangusnoko

    @pengobatangusnoko

    5 ай бұрын

    How is your country condition now

  • @kulprasadgurung6644
    @kulprasadgurung66444 ай бұрын

    ❤❤❤❤

  • @zamitkamal2955
    @zamitkamal29555 ай бұрын

    ❤❤

  • @guldenaydin9918
    @guldenaydin99185 ай бұрын

    💝

  • @mineraidefer
    @mineraidefer5 ай бұрын

  • @Abhay81855
    @Abhay818555 ай бұрын

    😊

  • @komathiveeraswamy2174
    @komathiveeraswamy21744 ай бұрын

    Ma'am, please clarify whether is it correct to skip k sound in the word ask or asking while reciting this word in a sentence, for example, I asked your feedback. I'm asking your suggestion. In these above two sentences, is it correct to skip k pronounciation, like it's a...sing instead of asking.

  • @cantfindclips
    @cantfindclips5 ай бұрын

    Lols. I too want to know how old you are, I’ve even thought about asking in the comments, but then I’m like… “NO.” I then think, “What benefits does that information give me?” And because it’s just not something we do in our society so I don’t say anything.

  • @user-le8ln9ny5n
    @user-le8ln9ny5n4 ай бұрын

    You know, you are so pleasant to me and I like listening to you so much! You are very literate and very well-mannered! But there is one caveat - I am from Russia! I am an English teacher! I would really like to invite you to join us! To me, to my family!!! And I would really like to visit you in the UK!!

  • @ahmedhumayunrasheed2434
    @ahmedhumayunrasheed24345 ай бұрын

    Copperfield was the best!

  • @cleuziosilva7668
    @cleuziosilva76684 ай бұрын

    😄

  • @smilingdalia111
    @smilingdalia111Ай бұрын

    It's illegal to ask, "How old are you?" in a job interview in the UK and USA. 5:20