“Things that are changed or gone will come back as they used to be.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade. — 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
“Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!” — 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
Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Everything postponed to that imaginary time! Everything held in confusion and indecision until then!” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“IT WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT A GRAVE HAD OPENED IN MY ROAD OF LIFE, AND the gap it made in the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Courage, dear miss! Courage! Business! The worst will be over in a moment; it is but passing the room-door, and the worst” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is a long time,' repeated his wife; 'and when is it not a long time? Vengeance and retribution require a long… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Dear Sir, I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your obliging letter, and to assure you that my time and attention are… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The night was as dark by this time as it would be until morning; and what light we had, seemed to come… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I should grow sad to think that such among them as I sometimes meet with in my daily walks are scarcely less… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I go so far as to say, miss, morehover," proceeded Mr. Cruncher, with a most alarming tendency to hold forth as from… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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
“As to any sense of inequality, or youthfulness, or other difficulty in our way, little Em'ly and I had no such trouble,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“All was over in a moment. I had fulfilled my destiny. I was a captive and a slave. I loved Dora Spenlow… — 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
“First, not a word more from you about the past. There was an error in your calculations. I know what that is.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I was only going to say," said Scrooge's nephew, "that the consequence of his taking a dislike to us, and not making… — 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
“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
When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I had no thought, that night—none, I am quite sure—of what was soon to happen to me. But I have always remembered… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“From the beginning, she had sat looking at him fixedly. As he now leaned back in his chair, and bent his deep-set… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“But what were even gold and silver, precious stones and clockwork, to the bookshops, whence a pleasant smell of paper freshly pressed… — 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
“Betsy Trotwood don’t look a likely subject for the tender passion, but the time was, Trot, when she believed in that man… — 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
“These are early days, Trot, and Rome was not built in a day, nor in a year. You have chosen freely for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused—in whose mind… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected. — 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
