A Tale of Two Cities

"In the name of the Republic, in the name of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death."

"The human heart has its secrets, and the human mind its mysteries."

"Paris was in the throes of revolution, and the very air seemed to vibrate with the passion of the people."

"The manner of all his proceedings, the way in which he had borne himself to those about him, had been marked by a consideration and a thoughtfulness that was its own reward."

"Love is a great beautifier."

"The night was dark and cold; the streets were wet and dreary; the whole aspect of the place was suggestive of nothing but misery and despair."

"I see the time-piece and the gaoler fading from my gaze like all things which the eyes take in at the last."

"She looked at him with the barely perceptible rise of a woman who sees in a man something she recognizes but does not yet understand."

"I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live."

"The quiet and the peace of the gentleman's neighbourhood made it a choice place to live in."

"Whenever the influential smuggler becomes the law, he will make it a law of rapine and blood."

"I have had the happiness, and the honor, of calling her mine in thought, for days and hours, it may be months."

"The bank was already stirring with the early business."

"I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy, in that England which I shall see no more."

"One of the first considerations which becomes necessary, when a man begins to think anything at all of a woman, is her family."

"If the impassive servant of the time-piece who goes on striking, strike now, there is nothing to tell of."

"He had spared a man's life, and he made me feel wretched about it."

"Madame Defarge was a stout woman of some fifty or so, for whom it was not necessary to lift a lot of care-worn years to gather about her."

"The wine was red wine, and had stained the ground of the narrow street in the suburb of Saint Antoine, in Paris, where it was spilled."

"I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me."

"You have been the last dream of my soul."

"I see Barsad, and Cly, Defarge, The Vengeance, the Juryman, the Judge, long rows of the dead and the living."

"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."

"The very first preparation for a long journey is to desire to go."

"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other."

"Recalled to Life."

"I am a disappointed drudge, sir. I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me."

"There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France."

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."

"These are the times that test men's souls"