A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
-Why don't you cry again, you little wretch? -Because I'll never cry for you again. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Being that rare sort of old girl that she receives Good to her arms without a hint that it might be Better… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in… — 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
Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He lived in chambers that had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I don't like that sort of school... where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged... where I have never seen among the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is something indefinably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
'I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too." Are you, Joe?" Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We went our several ways," said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Well, well!" said my aunt. "I only ask. I don't depreciate her. Poor little couple! And so you think you were formed… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There was a little plate of hothouse nectarines on the table, and there was another of grapes, and another of sponge-cakes, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
At last, in the dead of the night, when the street was very still indeed, Little Dorrit laid the heavy head upon… — 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
... 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
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — Charles Dickens Copy Share
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share
