And the voices in the waves are always whispering to Florence, in their ceaseless murmuring, of love - of love, eternal and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
For a long time, no village girl would dress her hair or bosom with the sweetest flower from that field of death:… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He appeared to enjoy beyond everything the sound of his own voice. I couldn't wonder at that, for it was mellow and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The pony preserved his character for independence and principle down to the last moment of his life; which was an unusually long… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I see Barsad, and Cly, Defarge, The Vengeance, the Juryman, the Judge, long ranks of the new oppressors who have risen on… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Love, however, is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory, and will thrive, for a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“There has been a time since when I have wondered whether, if the life before her could have been revealed to me… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“They said of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefullest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Most of our readers will remember, that, until within a very few years past, there was a kind of iron cage in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“There never was a man with such a face as yours, unless it was your father, and I suppose he is singeing… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, Present,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There were times when he could not read the face he had studied so long, and when this lonely girl was a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I wish with all my soul I had been better guided! I wish with all my soul I could guide myself better!… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas-time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred… — 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