I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“My father had left a small collection of books in a little room upstairs, to which I had access (for it adjoined… — 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
He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“He gave it its present name, and lived here shut up: day and night poring over the wicked heaps of papers in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be… — 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
