“There are many things which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Today, as a result of the policy of Macmillan's Government, Great Britain presents in the United Nations the face of Pecksniff and… — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
“A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Možda si ti kakav neprobavljeni komad govedine, žličica gorčice, grumenčić sira, polovica nedokuhana krumpira. Ti imaš više veze sa drobom nego sa… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“In short, I should have liked to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet be man enough to know… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures," replied Estella, with a glance towards him, "hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It's a weakness to be so affectionate, but I can't help it. No doubt my health would be much better if it… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“...sapevo, con mio grande dolore, molto spesso, se non sempre, che l'amavo a dispetto della ragione, a dispetto di ogni promessa, a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It is the custom on the stage in all good, murderous melodramas, to present the tragic and the comic scenes in as… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“...but everything in our intercourse did give me pain. Whatever her tone with me happened to be, I could put no trust… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“When I had lain awake a little awhile, those extraordinary voices with which silence teems, began to make themselves audible. The closet… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction… — 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
“Good for Christmas-time is the ruddy colour of the cloak in which--the tree making a forest of itself for her to trip… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“History teaches us that Literary Book Awards have always been the quickest and easiest way to achieve global fame. They have helped… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
“She stood looking at me, and, of course, I stood looking at her. "Am I pretty?" "Yes; I think you are very… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The day before the Queen's Ball, Father had a visitor--a very young girl with literary aspirations, someone Lord Lytton had recommended visit… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“I see Barsad, and Cly, Defarge, The Vengeance, the Juryman, the Judge, long ranks of the new oppressors who have risen on… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Tonight, however, Dickens struck him in a different light. Beneath the author’s sentimental pity for the weak and helpless, he could discern… — Margaret Irwin Copy Share Image
“The sudden and uncalled for coldness with which you treated me just before I left last night, both surprised and deeply hurt… — 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
“And here you see me working out, as cheerfully and thankfully as I may, my doom of sharing in the glass a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“A man would die tonight of lying out on the marshes, I thought. And then I looked at the stars, and considered… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“One novel has been all my reading, Our Mutual Friend, one of the cleverest that Dickens has written.” — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“I like Mr. Dickens’ books much better than yours, Papa. Said one of Thackeray’s daughters.” — David Markson Copy Share Image
“Blažene žene: one nikad ništa ne rade dopola. One uvijek u sve unose svu strast.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“And what's the best of all, you've been more comfortable alonger me, since I was under a dark cloud, than when the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“... we produced a bundle of pens, a copious supply of ink, and a goodly show of writing and blotting paper. For… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“…some bits of Dickens-books with which latter I am long familiar and long enamored for the restful falseness of their sentiment and… — Mary MacLane 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
“Thackeray's a good writer and Flaubert is a great artist. Trollope is a good writer and Dickens is a great artist. Colette… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“He very soon acquired the reputation of being the best public speaker of his time. He had taken pains to master the… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
“When the last autumn of Dickens's life was over, he continued to work through his final winter and into spring. This is… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
