I believe the powers of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed,… — 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
“He had heard the children’s talk, and his heart was very heavy as he looked about the shabby room that used to… — 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
“It was nothing to her, that an innocent man was to die for the sins of his forefathers; she saw, not him,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Drunkenness - that fierce rage for the slow, sure poison, that oversteps every other consideration; that casts aside wife, children, friends, happiness,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I am in the theatrical profession myself, my wife is in the theatrical profession, my children are in the theatrical profession.I had… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The daughter of Jairus was recalled to life, to die; but she, more blest, has heard the same voice, saying unto her,… — 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
“Indeed, as he eagerly sparkled at them from the cellarage before mentioned, he seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desires…then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disninterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The dreams of childhood—its airy fables; its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond: so good to be believed-in once,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I really do not know, in my Castle, what loneliness is. Some of our children or grandchildren are always about it, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“. . . for not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Some philosophers tell us that selfishness is at the root of our best loves and affections. Mr. Dombey's young child was, from… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“But, like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“She did not greatly alter in appearance. The plain dark dresses, akin to mourning dresses, which she and her child wore, were… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
the dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be… — 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
