Hard Times Dickens Quotes

QUOTES ON HARD TIMES

Gradgrind

“Now, what I want is facts”

“A man of facts and calculations”

“He seemed a galvanising apparatus”

‘He was so much at a loss at that place, that he stopped altogether’

“It may not be all-sufficient; how can I venture this morning to say it is”

“You are more dispassionate than I expected, Louisa”

‘He had a jaded anxious look upon him’

‘His hand, usually steady, trembled in hers’

‘With hesitation as well as with a wretched sense of helplessness’

Mr Bounderby

“He was a rich man: banker, merchant, manufacturer and what not”

Utilitarianism

“Facts alone are wanted in life”

“Gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim”

“‘The Hands’- a race”

“The cavity where his heart should have been”

Pegasus’s Arms

“Shakespearian quips and retorts”

“With their…