Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life. — 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
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The fire? It has been alive as long as I have. We talk and think together all night long. It’s like a… — 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
“As the prospect gradually revealed itself and disclosed the scene over which the wind had wandered in the dark, like my memory… — 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
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
“In this brief life our ours, it is sad to do almost anything for the last time.” — 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
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
“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
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
“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
“Pip, dear old chap. life is made of ever many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man's a blacksmith… — 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
“That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life.… — 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
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“to Life I. The Period II. The Mail III. The Night Shadows IV. The Preparation” — 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
