New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“In journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Little Dorrit that she had not seen Mr F.'s Aunt so full of life and character for weeks; that she would find… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Full-Private Number One in the Awkward Squad of the rank and file of life was Sloppy, and yet had his glimmering notions… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“For our path in life...is stony and rugged now, and it rests with us to smooth it. We must fight our way… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Ah! poetry makes life what light and music do the stage—strip the one of the false embellishments, and the other of its… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“IT WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT A GRAVE HAD OPENED IN MY ROAD OF LIFE, AND the gap it made in the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life... I know… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I feel as if it were not for me to record, even though this manuscript is intended for no eyes but mine,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The pony preserved his character for independence and principle down to the last moment of his life; which was an unusually long… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature, that, when the heart is touched and softened by some tranquil happiness… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“As she stooped over him, her tears fell upon his forehead. The boy stirred, and smiled in his sleep, as though these… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Every day of his life he had a long sitting at the Memorial, which never made the least progress, however hard he… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Lord bless you!" said Mr. Omer, resuming his pipe, "a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“As its silent track in the water disappeared, the prayer that had broken up out of his heart for a merciful consideration… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“... in short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“My child, if I have any object in life, it is to provide for your being a good, a sensible, and a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have… — 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
“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 Image
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 Image
“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
