“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come to peace and happiness. I come… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“REMEMBER HOW STRONG WE ARE IN OUR HAPPINESS, AND HOW WEAK HE IS IN IS MISERY!” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old,… — 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
“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
“Such,' thought Mr. Pickwick, 'are the narrow views of those philosophers who, content with examining the things that lie before them, look… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Let us leave our old friend in one of those moments of unmixed happiness which, if we seek them, there are ever… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“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
Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused—in whose mind… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace? — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment. How many families, whose members… — 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
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all: I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world! — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Let us leave our old friend in one of those moments of unmixed happiness, of which, if we seek them, there are… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I have said that they were truly happy; and without strong affection and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I'd lay down my life for her - Mas'r Davy - Oh! most content and cheerful! She's more to me - gent'lmen… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“He saw that men who worked hard, and earned their scanty bread with lives of labour, were cheerful and happy; and that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“In these times, when so wide a gulf has opened between the rich and the poor, which, instead of narrowing, as all… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“We write these words now, many miles distant from the spot at which, year after year, we met on that day, a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children… — 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