Charles Dickens

Discipline must be maintained.

— Charles Dickens

A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!

— Charles Dickens

Have a heart that never hardens

— Charles Dickens

“Clara, are you a perfect fool?”

— Charles Dickens

“You've got the key of the street.”

— Charles Dickens

“Ten minutes, good, past eleven.”

— Charles Dickens

“Boys are very like men to be sure.”

— Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

— Charles Dickens

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

— Charles Dickens

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

— Charles Dickens

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

— Charles Dickens

It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

— Charles Dickens

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

— Charles Dickens

“Bolje je i nemati oči nego ih imati tako zle!”

— Charles Dickens

Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

— Charles Dickens

“Tell me, would you seek me out and try to win me now? Ah, no!”

— Charles Dickens

“Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this. Mrs. Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth”

— Charles Dickens

“In this brief life our ours, it is sad to do almost anything for the last time.”

— Charles Dickens

Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic.

— Charles Dickens

“I tried to do that very difficult thing, imagine old people young again and invested with the graces of youth. But”

— Charles Dickens

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

— Charles Dickens

“Rises XXIII. Fire Rises XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock Book the Third—the Track of a Storm I. In Secret II.”

— Charles Dickens

“Morning made a considerable difference in my general prospects of Life and brightened it so much that is scarcely seemed the same.”

— Charles Dickens

Well," said my aunt, "this is his boy - his son. He would be as like his father as it's possible to…

— Charles Dickens

The more especially, as in my juvenile frankness, I took some credit to myself for being so confidential and felt that I…

— Charles Dickens

“To surround anything, however monstrous or ridiculous, with an air of mystery, is to invest it with a secret charm, and power…

— Charles Dickens

“She is like the morning," he said. "With that golden hair, those blue eyes, and that fresh bloom on her cheek, she…

— Charles Dickens

If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was…

— Charles Dickens

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

In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it,…

— Charles Dickens

The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river…

— Charles Dickens

This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a…

— Charles Dickens

And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this…

— Charles Dickens

But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a…

— Charles Dickens

“For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. If my career were of that better kind that there…

— Charles Dickens

“It was a rimy morning, and very damp. I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as…

— Charles Dickens

“CHRISTMAS TREE by Charles Dickens After the publication of The Haunted Man (1848), the last of Dickens’ Christmas novellas, he marked the…

— Charles Dickens

“First, not a word more from you about the past. There was an error in your calculations. I know what that is.…

— Charles Dickens

“Contemplating the scene?’ inquired the dismal man. ‘I was,’ said Mr. Pickwick. ‘And congratulating yourself on being up so soon?’ Mr. Pickwick…

— Charles Dickens

“The purpose was, that I would go to Biddy, that I would show her how humbled and repentant I came back, that…

— Charles Dickens