“Calamity with us, is made an excuse for doing wrong. With them, it is erected into a reason for their doing right.… — 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
“For a week or a fortnight I can write prodigiously in a retired place (as at Broadstairs), and a day in London… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“We have had for breakfast, toasts, cakes, a yorkshire pie, a piece of beef about the size and much the shape of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Then idiots talk…of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I do must decidedly object, and have a most invincible and powerful repugnance to that frequent reference to the Almighty in small… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Freedom of opinion! Where is it? I see a press more mean and paltry and silly and disgraceful than any country ever… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
His gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I was a witness of the execution at Horsemonger-lane this morning. ... I believe that a sight so inconceivably awful as the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“My Dear Mrs Winter. (I had half a mind when I dipped my pen in the ink, to address you by your… — 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
