“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
“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
“Then, the sea fell, and the dying voice made another feeble effort, and then the sea rose high, and beat its life… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
For a long time, no village girl would dress her hair or bosom with the sweetest flower from that field of death:… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It's a bad job," he said, when I had done; "but the sun sets every day, and people die every minute, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“That small world, like the great one out of doors, had the capacity of easily forgetting its dead; and when the cook… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“was a fundamental principle of the Gradgrind philosophy that everything was to be paid for. Nobody was ever on any account to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“My loneliness since then, in all this noise and riot, has been very dreadful. May God forgive me! He has seen my… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I'm pretty well. So's the family, and so's the boys, except for a sort of rash as is a running through the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“He went to India with his capital, and there, according to a wild legend in our family, he was once seen riding… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Therefore, he sat before his dying fire, sorrowful to think upon the way by which he had come to that night, yet… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“We are thankful to come here for rest, sir," said Jenny. "You see, you don't know what the rest of this place… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature, that, when the heart is touched and softened by some tranquil happiness… — 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
