And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Therefore, as we grow older, let us be more thankful that the circle of our Christmas associations and of the lessons that… — 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
“Christmas Days at sea are of varied character, fair to middling and down to plainly atrocious. In this statement I do not… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Well! I’ve ended my tale; I hope you don’t think it too long; but, before I go, just let me say one… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The Grocers'! oh the Grocers'! nearly closed, with perhaps two shutters down, or one; but through those gaps such glimpses! It was… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“CHRISTMAS TREE by Charles Dickens After the publication of The Haunted Man (1848), the last of Dickens’ Christmas novellas, he marked the… — 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
