“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
Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much. Flora, whom he… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“We are friends," said I, rising and bending over her, as she rose from the bench. "And will continue friends apart," said… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful. It was not the faintness of physical weakness, though confinement and hard fare… — 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
“I should like to ask you: -- Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your mother's… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The rats had crept out of their holes to look on, and they remained looking on for hours; soldiers and police often… — 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
“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
