Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers,… — 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
Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his… — 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
But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The pony having thoroughly satisfied himself as to the nature and properties of the fireplug, looked into the air after his old… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“how there were echoes all about her, sweet in her ears, of the many times her father had told her that he… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Yet, I had nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess (which might be of less moment still), that no… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Well! It was only their love for me, I know very well, and it is a long time ago. I must write… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
For who can wonder that man should feel a vague belief in tales of disembodied spirits wandering through those places which they… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“In truth she is not a hard lady naturally, and the time has been when the sight of the venerable figure suing… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“In these times, when so wide a gulf has opened between the rich and the poor, which, instead of narrowing, as all… — 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
Now, Bella suspected by this time that Mr. Rokesmith admired her. Whether the knowledge (for it was rather that than suspicion) caused… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"We will wait," answered little Alice, taking Nettie's hand in hers, and looking up to the sky, "we will wait - ever… — 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
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
“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
“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
“But there have been times since, in my manhood, many times there have been, when I have thought, Is it possible, among… — 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
