“For a long time, Oliver remained motionless in this attitude. The candle was burning low in the socket when he rose to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“There never was a man with such a face as yours, unless it was your father, and I suppose he is singeing… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Let us leave our old friend in one of those moments of unmixed happiness which, if we seek them, there are ever… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
For a long time, no village girl would dress her hair or bosom with the sweetest flower from that field of death:… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I don't suppose there's a man going, as possesses the fondness for youth that I do. There's youth to the amount of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“In truth she is not a hard lady naturally, and the time has been when the sight of the venerable figure suing… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Recollections of the past and visions of the present come to bear me company; the meanest man to whom I have ever… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I had no thought, that night—none, I am quite sure—of what was soon to happen to me. But I have always remembered… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
So, Mr. Chadband-of whom the persecutors say that it is no wonder he should go on for any length of time uttering… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Yet, I had nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess (which might be of less moment still), that no… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“At length it became high time to remember the first clause of that great discovery made by the ancient philosopher, for securing… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I'll sing you a new ballad, andI'll warrant it first-rate, Of the days of that old gentleman who had that old estate;… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
His wardrobe was extensive--very extensive--not strictly classical perhaps, not quite new, nor did it contain any one garment made precisely after the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“There was silence, which was not broken until Arthur had stood for some time at the window with his back towards them,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“There was a long hard time when I kept far from me, the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“This,' opening another door, 'is my chamber. I read here when the family suppose I have retired to rest. Sometimes I injure… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Among the mighty store of wonderful chains that are for ever forging, day and night, in the cast iron-works of time and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, Present,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen… — 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
