I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disninterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her. — 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
“It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself.” — 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
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
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
“My child, if I have any object in life, it is to provide for your being a good, a sensible, and a… — 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
“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
Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was… — 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
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
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
“it was such a curious corner in its acoustical properties, such a peculiar Ear of a place, that as Mr. Loory stood… — 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
We will wait," answered little Alice, taking Nettie's hand in hers, and looking up to the sky, "we will wait - ever… — 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
But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known 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
“My dear children, I am very anxious that you should know something about the History of Jesus Christ. For everybody ought to… — 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
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when the creator was a child himself. (Christmas Carol). — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so… — 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 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
Peggotty!" repeated Miss Betsey, with some indignation. "Do you mean to say, child, that any human being has gone into a Christian… — 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
“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
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“there were more children there than Scrooge in his agitated mind could count, and unlike the celebrated poem, not every forty children… — 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
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
“May I ask you if you have ever had an opportunity of remarking, down in your part of the country, that the… — 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
“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
... 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
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — Charles Dickens Copy Share
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share
