If you can't get to be oncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. So don't tell… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"We will wait," answered little Alice, taking Nettie's hand in hers, and looking up to the sky, "we will wait - ever… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If Natur has gifted a man with powers of argeyment, a man has a right to make the best of 'em, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort of spring… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It was a very aged, ghostly place; the church had been built many hundreds of years ago, and had once had a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There are people enough to tread upon me in my lowly state, without my doing outrage to their feelings by possessing learning.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"Next," said Mrs Wilfer with a wave of her gloves, expressive of abdication under protest from the culinary throne, "I would recommend… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"Then idiots talk," said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, "of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them asleep if… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be… — 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
