“He has got his discharge, by G-! said the man. He had. But he had grown so like death in life, that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever… — 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
“We are thankful to come here for rest, sir," said Jenny. "You see, you don't know what the rest of this place… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man’s a… — 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
Oh Agnes, Oh my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“My sister's bringing up had made me sensitive. In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up,… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“I have understood that it was, to the last, her proudest boast, that she never had been on the water in her… — 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
Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and… — 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
And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“A man in public life expects to be sneered at—it is the fault of his elewated sitiwation, and not of himself.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this… — 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
