I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Her father, cheering her, showed a compassionate superiority to this woman's weakness, which was wonderful to see.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“But, like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“A curious monomaniac,' said Eugene. 'The man seems to believe that everybody was acquainted with his mother!” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My hair stands on end at the cost and charges of these boys. Why was I ever a father! Why was my… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It was a maxim with Foxey- our revered father, gentlemen - 'Always suspect everybody.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Ecod, you may say what you like of my father, then, and so I give you leave," said Jonas. "I think it's… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Well," said my aunt, "this is his boy - his son. He would be as like his father as it's possible to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“She did not replace my mother; no one could do that; but she came into a vacancy in my heart, which closed… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I think,” said my guardian, thoughtfully regarding her, “I think it must be somewhere written that the virtues of the mothers shall… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“...lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I should be an affected women, if I made any pretence of being surprised by my son's inspiring such emotions; but I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“My dear!” I remonstrated, in allusion to the epithet and the vigorous emphasis Miss Jellyby set upon it. “Your duty as a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“He wouldn’t let his son have any name if he could take it from him,” returned the old lady. “Look at the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It was a dagger in the haughty father's heart, an arrow in his brain, to see how the flesh and blood he… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Very well!' said Doyce. 'Then, if this young lady will do me the honour of regarding me for four-and-twenty hours in the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“What do I know, father,' said Louisa in her quiet manner, 'of tastes and fancies; of aspirations and affections; of all that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Papa is a preferable mode of address,' observed Mrs General. 'Father is rather vulgar, my dear. The word Papa, besides, gives a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Lost friend, lost child, lost parent, sister, brother, husband, wife, we will not so discard you! You shall hold your cherished places… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“But there have been times since, in my manhood, many times there have been, when I have thought, Is it possible, among… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“An ugly woman, very poorly clothed, hurried in while I was glancing at them, and coming straight up to the mother, said,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Mr Cobb would acquaint him, that when he was his age, his father thought no more of giving him a parental kick,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Miss Manette!' The young lady, to whom all eyes had been turned before, and were now turned again, stood up where she… — 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
“When she (Miss Betsey - M. Zh.)reached the house she gave another proof of her identity. My father had often hinted that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“ 'How a mother can look at her baby, and know that she lives beyond her husband's means, I cannot imagine.' "… — 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
“Why didn’t you ever go to school, Joe, when you were as little as me?’ ‘Well, Pip,’ said Joe, taking up the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“. . . such a rush immediately ensued that she with laughing face and plundered dress was borne towards it the centre… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The same mistake presents itself to me, in one shape or other, at every turn,' said brother Charles. 'Parents who never showed… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The mother who lay in the grave, was the mother of my infancy; the little creature in her arms, was myself, as… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I am glad to recollect that when the carrier's cart was at the gate, and my mother stood there kissing me, a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Mr. Bazzard's father, being a Norfolk farmer, would have furiously laid about him with a flail, a pitch-fork, and every agricultural implement… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going. . . . My mother is likewise a very 'umble person.… — 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
