“from the death of each day's hope, another hope sprang up to live tomorrow.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I hope,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'that our volatile friend is committing no absurdities in that dickey behind.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy. -Miss Havisham — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Things that are changed or gone will come back as they used to be.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I have an affection for the road ... formed in the impressibility of untried youth and hope.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Walter," she said, looking full upon him with her affectionate eyes, "like you, I hope for better things. I will pray for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Of all my old associations, of all my old pursuits and hopes, of all the living and the dead world, this one… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Hope, you see, Wal'r," said the Captain, sagely, "Hope. It's that as animates you. Hope is a buoy, for which you overhaul… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“...but everything in our intercourse did give me pain. Whatever her tone with me happened to be, I could put no trust… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“If I were to live a hundred years, and write three novels in each, I should never be so proud of any… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Waste forces within him, and a desert all around, this man stood still on his way across a silent terrace, and saw… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The day wore on, and all these bright colours subsided, and assumed a quieter tint, like young hopes softened down by time,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“He gave it its present name, and lived here shut up: day and night poring over the wicked heaps of papers in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It is a dreadful thing to wait and watch for the approach of death; to know that hope is gone, and recovery… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Estella was the inspiration of it, and the heart of it, of course. But, though she had taken such strong possession of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Buried how long?” The answer was always the same: “Almost eighteen years.” You had abandoned all hope of being dug out?” Long… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Well, Pip,’ said Joe, ‘be it so or be it son’t, you must be a scholar afore you can be a oncommon… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Although to restless and ardent minds, morning may be the fitting season for exertion and activity, it is not always at that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Spirit!” he cried, tight clutching at its robe, “hear me! I am not the man I was. I will not be the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that… — 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
