Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“But he is only stunned by the unvanquishable difficulty of his existence.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It is one of the easiest achievements in life to offend your family when your family want to get rid of you.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Our whole life, Travellers," said I, "is a story more or less intelligible, - generally less; but we shall read it by… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“He has got his discharge, by G-! said the man. He had. But he had grown so like death in life, that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The very stars to which I then raised my eyes, I am afraid I took to be but poor and humble stars… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“To this it must be added, that life in a wig is to a large class of people much more terrifying and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
... I had a latent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution - not for old associations' sake,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I have understood that it was, to the last, her proudest boast, that she never had been on the water in her… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And yet I love him. I love him so much and so dearly, that when I sometimes think my life may be… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And thus ever by day and night, under the sun and under the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment. How many families, whose members… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Every day of his life he had a long sitting at the Memorial, which never made the least progress, however hard he… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Let us leave our old friend in one of those moments of unmixed happiness, of which, if we seek them, there are… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It is the custom on the stage: in all good, murderous melodramas: to present the tragic and the comic scenes, in as… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“As she stooped over him, her tears fell upon his forehead. The boy stirred, and smiled in his sleep, as though these… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused—in whose mind… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“In journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.” — 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
