“Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Things that are changed or gone will come back as they used to be.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“You comfort me so much! I am so ignorant. Am I to kiss you now? Is the moment come?” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected." (… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The weather being hot, he had no cravat, and wore his shirt collar wide open; so that every time he spoke something… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“But the man continuing to exclaim, "Down, Evremonde!" the face of Evremonde is for a moment turned towards him. Evremonde then sees… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I go so far as to say, miss, morehover," proceeded Mr. Cruncher, with a most alarming tendency to hold forth as from… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which… — 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… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Newman cast a despairing glance at his small store of fuel, but, not having the courage to say no-a word which in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say, 'Christmas among… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“In these times, when so wide a gulf has opened between the rich and the poor, which, instead of narrowing, as all… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I wish with all my soul I had been better guided! I wish with all my soul I could guide myself better!… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The pony having thoroughly satisfied himself as to the nature and properties of the fireplug, looked into the air after his old… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its… — 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
“how there were echoes all about her, sweet in her ears, of the many times her father had told her that he… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
For who can wonder that man should feel a vague belief in tales of disembodied spirits wandering through those places which they… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“These are early days, Trot, and Rome was not built in a day, nor in a year. You have chosen freely for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“From the beginning, she had sat looking at him fixedly. As he now leaned back in his chair, and bent his deep-set… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“For the first time the Doctor felt, now, that his suffering was strength and power. For the first time he felt that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Betsy Trotwood don’t look a likely subject for the tender passion, but the time was, Trot, when she believed in that man… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The pony preserved his character for independence and principle down to the last moment of his life; which was an unusually long… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“But what were even gold and silver, precious stones and clockwork, to the bookshops, whence a pleasant smell of paper freshly pressed… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“They said of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefullest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Love, however, is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory, and will thrive, for a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me. — 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