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
Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, and the other… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Well, it was really very pleasant to see how things lazily adapted themselves to purposes. Here was this Mr Gridley, a man… — 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
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
“why should I seek to change, what has been so precious to me for so long! you can never show better than… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“He saw that women, the tenderest and most fragile of all God’s creatures, were the oftenest superior to sorrow, adversity, and distress;… — 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
Have you ever had the sensation of looking at someone for the first time and ever so quickly the past and future… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Mature affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express itself. Its voice is low. It is modest and retiring, it lies in ambush,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything that no… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Aye, though he loved her from his soul with such a self denying love as woman seldom wins; he spoke from first… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“And now, as I close my task, subduing my desire to linger yet, these faces fade away. But one face, shining on… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“What do I know, father,' said Louisa in her quiet manner, 'of tastes and fancies; of aspirations and affections; of all that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better. — 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
... Natural affections and instincts, my dear sir, are the most beautiful of the Almighty's works, but like other beautiful works of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It was in vain for Madame Defarge to struggle and to strike; Miss Pross, with the vigorous tenacity of love, always so… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I have an affection for the road ... formed in the impressibility of untried youth and hope.” — 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
