It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly… — 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
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
There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A tranquil summer sunset shone upon him as he approached the end of his walk, and passed through the meadows by the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature, that, when the heart is touched and softened by some tranquil happiness… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I am a disappointed drudge, sir. I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me” — 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
There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The bright, frosty day declined as they walked and spoke together. The sun dipped in the river far behind them, and the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them asleep if… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“On inanimate nature, as on the men and women who cultivated it, a prevalent tendency towards an appearance of vegetating unwillingly—a dejected… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“A long suburb of red brick houses -some with patches of garden-ground, where coal-dust and factory smoke darkened the shrinking leaves, and… — 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
Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“in that one glimpse of a better nature, born as it was in selfish thoughts, the rich man felt himself friendless, childless,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is one of those problems of human nature, which may be noted down, but not solved; - although Ralph felt no… — 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
One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of… — 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
