“The day wore on, and all these bright colours subsided, and assumed a quieter tint, like young hopes softened down by time,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy. -Miss Havisham — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It is a dreadful thing to wait and watch for the approach of death; to know that hope is gone, and recovery… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It's always something, to know you've done the most you could. But, don't leave off hoping, or it's of no use doing… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"Ah, Miss, hope is an excellent thing for such as has the spirits to bear it!" said Mrs Wickam, shaking her head.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Things that are changed or gone will come back as they used to be.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“He gave it its present name, and lived here shut up: day and night poring over the wicked heaps of papers in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I have an affection for the road ... formed in the impressibility of untried youth and hope.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Although to restless and ardent minds, morning may be the fitting season for exertion and activity, it is not always at that… — 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