“I'm a devil at a quick mistake, and when I make one it takes the form of Lead.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The same mistake presents itself to me, in one shape or other, at every turn,' said brother Charles. 'Parents who never showed… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“First, not a word more from you about the past. There was an error in your calculations. I know what that is.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The two commonest mistakes in judgement ... are, the confounding of shyness with arrogance - a very common mistake indeed - and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“My name is on the first leaf. If you can ever write under my name, "I forgive her," though ever so long… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Her heart-is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or, better than that, die for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“my first impression of those people, founded on face and manner alone, was invariably true. My mistake was in suffering them to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of… — 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
