The Invisible Woman (2013)

Ralph Fiennes: Charles Dickens

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• Charles Dickens : A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is a profound secret and mystery to every other.

  Nelly : Until that secret is given to another to look after. And then perhaps two human creatures may know each other.

• Charles Dickens : When the day is creeping up on us and we must put in order the chaos of the night.

• [On the Poor and Giving] 

  Charles Dickens : Last night, I sat next to a gentleman at dinner, and he asked me in some fury why it was that our city should help those who do not help themselves.

  Charles Dickens : By "those" he meant the many fallen women that we see around us every day, and their offspring, many who rely on this hospital today.

  Charles Dickens : I replied, "The two grim nurses, poverty and sickness, bring these children before you and preside over their births, rock their wretched cradles, nail down their little coffins, pile up the earth above their graves. Their unnatural deaths form one third of the annual deaths in this great town."

  Charles Dickens : "But what of God?" he piously replied.

  Charles Dickens : "What Of him?" I said. "I feel sure God looks leniently on all vice that proceeds from human tenderness and natural passion."

  Charles Dickens : I hope we will, too, and give generously tonight.

• Charles Dickens : Tell me a secret.

  Nelly : What kind of secret?

  Charles Dickens : Anything...

  Nelly : My middle name is Lawless.