“Some of my readers may have an interest in being informed whether or no any portions of the Marshalsea Prison are yet… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. 'Were” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever Book the First—Recalled” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“These books were a way of escaping from the unhappiness of my life.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Most of our readers will remember, that, until within a very few years past, there was a kind of iron cage in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“His high spiced wares were made to sell, and they sold; and his thousands of readers could as rationally charge their delight… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“If I were to live a hundred years, and write three novels in each, I should never be so proud of any… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“No more can I turn the leaves of this dear book that I loved, and vainly hope in time to read it… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too." Are you, Joe?" Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“In the Victorian times there was much demand for Christmas books, which would make an ideal gift, as well provide amusing entertainment… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Don’t you read or get read to?” The old man shakes his head with sharp sly triumph. “No, no. We have never… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The Shoemaker Book the Second—the Golden Thread I. Five Years Later II. A Sight” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“My father had left a small collection of books in a little room upstairs, to which I had access (for it adjoined… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I remarked in the original Preface to this Book, that I did not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The Mail III. The Night Shadows IV. The Preparation V. The Wine-shop VI. The Shoemaker Book the Second—the” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Mr. Dick, listening with a face shining with pride and pleasure, in his heart of hearts, believed the Dictionary to be the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of successive ages, the just and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I laboured hard at my book, without allowing it to interfere with the punctual discharge of my newspaper duties; and it came… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world. — 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
When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Preparation V. The Wine-shop VI. The Shoemaker Book the Second—the Golden Thread I. Five” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever Book the First—Recalled to Life” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“So true are these avowals at the present day, that I can now only take the reader into one confidence more. Of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“A mystery man has just died in the novel. I've had these same thoughts when I see some of the homeless. "Then… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“He read with young men who could find any leisure and interest for the study of a living tongue spoken all over… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Book the Second—the Golden Thread I. Five Years Later II. A Sight III. A Disappointment IV.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Mr Pinch accordingly, after turning over the leaves of his book with as much care as if they were living and highly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The fire? It has been alive as long as I have. We talk and think together all night long. It’s like a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever Book the First—Recalled” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“You mightn't think it, but Sloppy is a beautiful reader of a newspaper. He do the Police in different voices' The visitors… — 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 Image
... 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 Image
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
