I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have always thought of Christmas as a good time; a kind, forgiving, generous, pleasant time; a time when men and women… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,' returned the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man’s a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“And so, as Tiny Tim said, 'A Merry Christmas to us all; God bless us, everyone!” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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
“Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever… — 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
