“Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“And let us not remember Italy the less regardfully, because, in every fragment of her fallen Temples, and every stone of her… — 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
“Mrs. Pocket was at home, and was in a little difficulty, on account of the baby's having been accommodated with a needle… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty. With a dimpled, surprised-looking, capital face; a ripe little mouth, that seemed made to be kissed… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“From the outset Dickens seemed to take charge even though he was younger than Seymour and less well known. His narrative input… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“LONDON. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Good for Christmas-time is the ruddy colour of the cloak in which--the tree making a forest of itself for her to trip… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“G. K. Chesterton wrote in Charles Dickens, that The Pickwick Papers was neither a good novel nor a bad novel but in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The year was dying early, the leaves were falling fast, it was a raw cold day when we took possession, and the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Scrooge followed to the window: desperate in his curiosity. He looked out. The air was filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Come!’ said he, ‘I don’t want to be told about that. I know what I took her for, as well as you… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it,… — 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
