While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“When you see your own bright beauty springing up anew at your feet, think now and then that there is a man… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its… — 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
“I should like to ask you:--Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your mother's knee, seem… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day… Love is not a passion of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The simple fact was, that Oliver, instead of possessing too little feeling, possessed rather too much, and was in a fair way… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion;… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Brave lodgings for one, brave lodgings for one, A few feet of cold earth, when life is done; A stone at the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It was not a reckless manner, the manner in which he said these words aloud under the fast-sailing clouds, nor was it… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Let us leave our old friend in one of those moments of unmixed happiness, of which, if we seek them, there are… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It is the custom on the stage: in all good, murderous melodramas: to present the tragic and the comic scenes, in as… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I have been deceived, before, in the objects whom I have endeavoured to benefit; but I feel strongly disposed to trust you,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Oh! if, when we oppress and grind our fellow-creatures, we bestowed but one thought on the dark evidences of human error, which,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused—in whose mind… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“There are some promotions in life, which, independent of the more substantial rewards they offer, acquire peculiar value and dignity from the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The daughter of Jairus was recalled to life, to die; but she, more blest, has heard the same voice, saying unto her,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“None of us clearly know to whom or to what we are indebted in this wise, until some marked stop in the… — 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
... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Weel, ma´am' said Stephen, making the best of it, with a smile; 'when I ha´finished off, I mun quit this part, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth, rather...that ever crawled and crept through life by its dirtiest and narrowest… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There lives at least one being who can never change-one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“...and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine, who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly early… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Then, the sea fell, and the dying voice made another feeble effort, and then the sea rose high, and beat its life… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And thus ever by day and night, under the sun and under the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
So, Mr. Chadband-of whom the persecutors say that it is no wonder he should go on for any length of time uttering… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Of all my old associations, of all my old pursuits and hopes, of all the living and the dead world, this one… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I'd lay down my life for her - Mas'r Davy - Oh! most content and cheerful! She's more to me - gent'lmen… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good… — 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
