What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world! — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitious man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"I am not afeard, my Heart's-delight," resumed the Captain. "There's been most uncommon bad weather in them latitudes, there's no denyin', and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He says-him as was here just now-'When Tom shut up the house, mate, to go to rack, the beds was left, all… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There was no wind; there was no passing shadow on the deep shade of the night; there was no noise. The city… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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
“But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Some happy talent, and some fortunate opportunity, may form the two sides of the ladder on which some men mount, but the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The nephew revenges himself for this, by holding his breath and terrifying his kinswoman with the dread belief that he has made… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The Secretary, working in the Dismal Swamp betimes next morning, was informed that a youth waited in the hall who gave the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There once was a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"And when you had made sure of the poor little fool," said my aunt - "God forgive me that I should call… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that… — 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
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
I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Mr Jarndyce, and prevented his going any farther, when he had remarked that there were two classes of charitable people: one, the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The great commander, who seemed by expression of his visage to be always on the look-out for something in the extremest distance,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The day was made for laziness, and lying on one's back in green places, and staring at the sky till its brightness… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a… — 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
His wardrobe was extensive--very extensive--not strictly classical perhaps, not quite new, nor did it contain any one garment made precisely after the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It's not put into his head to be buried. It's put into his head to be made useful. You hold your life… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Heaped on the floor were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings,… — 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
