Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“She indulged in melancholy, that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries...” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disninterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art." (Last words, according to Dickens's… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There are chords in the human heart- strange, varying strings- which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have had my share of sorrows-more than the common lot, perhaps, but I have borne them ill. I have broken where… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Some happy talent, and some fortunate opportunity, may form the two sides of the ladder on which some men mount, but the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
'I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It's a bad job," he said, when I had done; "but the sun sets every day, and people die every minute, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We will wait," answered little Alice, taking Nettie's hand in hers, and looking up to the sky, "we will wait - ever… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I should like to ask you:-Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your mother's knee, seem… — 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
“Boiled beef and greens constitute the day's variety on the former repast of boiled pork and greens; and Mrs. Bagnet serves out… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Hope to the last!" said Newman, clapping him on the back. "Always hope; that's dear boy. Never leave off hoping; it don't… — 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
