“I do must decidedly object, and have a most invincible and powerful repugnance to that frequent reference to the Almighty in small… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I should like to ask you:--Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your mother's knee, seem… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“There was once a king, and he had a queen; and he was the manliest of his gender, and she was the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“. . . such a rush immediately ensued that she with laughing face and plundered dress was borne towards it the centre… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I begin to think,' said Estella, in a musing way, after another moment of calm wonder, 'that I almost understand how this… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“he seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts, and prepared to blow them clean out of the regions… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“... in short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The days sported by us, as if Time had not grown up himself yet, but were a child too, and always at… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“they were not forty children conducting themselves like one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I should like to ask you: -- Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your mother's… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I should like to ask you:-Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your mother's knee, seem… — 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
“Encircled by the social thoughts of Christmas-time, still let the benignant figure of my childhood stand unchanged! In every cheerful image and… — 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
