The Cricket on the Hearth Quotes

“I must bear the consequences as I deserve!”
― Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth

“Ow if you please don't! Ow, what has everybody gone and been and done with everybody, making everybody else so wretched!
Ow-w-w-w!”
― Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth

“I have said that Caleb and his poor Blind Daughter lived here.  I should have said that Caleb lived here, and his poor Blind Daughter somewhere else - in an enchanted home of Caleb’s furnishing, where scarcity and shabbiness were not, and trouble never entered.  Caleb was no sorcerer, but in the only magic art that still remains to us, the magic of devoted, deathless love, Nature had been the mistress of his study; and from her teaching, all the wonder came.”
― Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth

“You never will derive so much delight from seeing a glorious little woman in the arms of a third party, as you would have felt if you had seen Dot run into the Carrier’s embrace.  It was the most complete, unmitigated, soul-fraught little piece of earnestness that ever you beheld in all your days.”
― Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth