“What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Besides, the kettle was aggravating and obstinate. It wouldn't allow itself to be adjusted on the top bar; it wouldn't hear of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Sit down, my dear,” said Mr. Jarndyce. “This, you must know, is the growlery. When I am out of humour, I come… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“My sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, was more than twenty years older than I, and had established a great reputation with herself and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Mr. Tope is again highly entertained, and, having fallen into respectful convulsions of laughter, subsides into a deferential murmur, importing that surely… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Bless the bright eyes of your sex! They never see, whether for good or bad, more than one side of any question;… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Next Mrs. Crupp said it was clear she couldn't be in two places at once (which I felt to be reasonable). . .” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“And let us tranquilize ourselves by making a compact. Next time (with a view to our peace of mind) we'll commit the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“But I am thinking like a lover, or like an ass: which I suppose is pretty nearly the same.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Gentlemen," returned Mr. Micawber, "do with me as you will! I am a straw upon the surface of the deep, and am… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“...The bottom of his garden joins the bottom of ours, and of course I had several times seen him, sitting among the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“There is something indefinably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“...And a cool four thousand, Pip!" I never discovered from whom Joe derived the conventional temperature of the four thousand pounds, but… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I hardly seem yet," returned Charles Darnay, "to belong to this world again." "I don't wonder at it; it's not so long… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Second: them poor things well out o' this, and never no more will I interfere with Mrs. Cruncher's flopping, never no more!"… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“He has a very nice face and style, really," said Mrs. Kenwigs. "He certainly has," added Miss Petowker. "There's something in his… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I tell you what, Mr. Fledgeby,' said Lammle, advancing on him. 'Since you presume to contradict me, I'll assert myself a little.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“This was a vagrant of sixty-five, who was going to prison for not playing the flute; or, in other words, for begging… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Would you like to be taught Latin?' I said briskly. 'I will teach it to you with pleasure as I learn it.'… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I am in a ridiculous humour,' quoth Eugene; 'I am a ridiculous fellow. Everything is ridiculous. Come along!” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“You mightn't think it, but Sloppy is a beautiful reader of a newspaper. He do the Police in different voices' The visitors… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“My Uriah,' said Mrs. Heep, 'has looked forward to this, sir, a long while. He had his fears that our umbleness stood… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The air among the houses was of so strong a piscatory flavour that one might have supposed sick fish went up to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Crisparkle had need of her own share of philanthropy when she beheld this very large and very loud excrescence on the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“You are not in a fit state to come here, if you can't come here without spluttering like a bad pen.” — 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
