“She indulged in melancholy, that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries...” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art." (Last words, according to Dickens's… — 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
“The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We part with tender relations stretching far behind us, that never can be exactly renewed, and with others dawning - yet before… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the mourners learn to look to the blue sky by day, and to the stars by night, and to think that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Hope to the last!" said Newman, clapping him on the back. "Always hope; that's dear boy. Never leave off hoping; it don't… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Hope, you see, Wal'r," said the Captain, sagely, "Hope. It's that as animates you. Hope is a buoy, for which you overhaul… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Boiled beef and greens constitute the day's variety on the former repast of boiled pork and greens; and Mrs. Bagnet serves out… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is no small thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
... The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it. — 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
... 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
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — Charles Dickens Copy Share
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share
