“We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Bear in mind then, that Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“When I had lain awake a little awhile, those extraordinary voices with which silence teems, began to make themselves audible. The closet… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Some medical beast had revived tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it… — 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
“...but everything in our intercourse did give me pain. Whatever her tone with me happened to be, I could put no trust… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“...sapevo, con mio grande dolore, molto spesso, se non sempre, che l'amavo a dispetto della ragione, a dispetto di ogni promessa, a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The contention came, after all, to this - the secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“He was a prosperous old bachelor, and his open window looked into a prosperous little garden and orchard, and there was a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“She stood looking at me, and, of course, I stood looking at her. "Am I pretty?" "Yes; I think you are very… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Here my sister, after a fit of clappings and screamings, beat her hands upon her bosom and upon her knees, and threw… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures," replied Estella, with a glance towards him, "hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It's a weakness to be so affectionate, but I can't help it. No doubt my health would be much better if it… — 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
“I wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common, that he might be worthier of my society and less open to Estella's… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good. — 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
“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
