Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It's not put into his head to be buried. It's put into his head to be made useful. You hold your life… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, flourishing his bread-and-cheese knife in the air, "in the human heart that had better not be… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and… — 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
We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
... I feel certain that his tale is true. Feeling that certainty, I befriend him. As long as that certainty shall last,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to… — 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
