We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been, in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer," said Mrs. Maylie; "I know that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Let me look up from it -… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You anticipate what I would say, though you cannot know how earnestly I say it, how earnestly I feel it, without knowing… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“how there were echoes all about her, sweet in her ears, of the many times her father had told her that he… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Now, Bella suspected by this time that Mr. Rokesmith admired her. Whether the knowledge (for it was rather that than suspicion) caused… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
For who can wonder that man should feel a vague belief in tales of disembodied spirits wandering through those places which they… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I am not afeard, my Heart's-delight," resumed the Captain. "There's been most uncommon bad weather in them latitudes, there's no denyin', and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Her heart-is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or, better than that, die for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
She was too intent upon her work, and too earnest in what she said, and too composed and quiet altogether, to be… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Dombey and Son had often dealt in hides, but never in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You have been so careful of me that I never had a child's heart. You have trained me so well that I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — Charles Dickens Copy Share
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“evening, they began to think that although he could never hope to be an Englishman, still it would be hard to visit that affliction… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“Besides which, all that I could have said of the Story to any purpose, I had endeavoured to say in it.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“The wheels rolled on, and rolled down by the Monument, and by the Tower; and by the Docks; down by Ratcliffe, and by Rotherhithe;… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“The three customers pulled off their hats to Madame Defarge, with three flourishes. She acknowledged their homage by bending her head, and giving them… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share
