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
“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
And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to… — 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
“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 has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only… — 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
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
“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
"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
If you will take me for your wife, Walter, I will love you dearly. If you will let me go with you,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. — 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
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
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
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
“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
“I am sure I loved that baby quite as truly, quite as tenderly, with greater purity and more disinterestedness, than can enter… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Don't be afraid to hear me. Don't shrink from anything I say. I am like one who died young: all my life… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever Book the First—Recalled to Life” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
... I had a latent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution - not for old associations' sake,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited,… — 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
“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
