“Because, sir, the way I look at it is that we are all drawing on to the bottom of the hill, whatever… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“In this brief life our ours, it is sad to do almost anything for the last time.” — 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
“Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Have you ever had the sensation of looking at someone for the first time and ever so quickly the past and future… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Things that are changed or gone will come back as they used to be.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“There was a long hard time when I kept far from me, the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I… — 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
As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Again the mender of roads went through the whole performance; in which he ought to have been perfect by that time, seeing… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. — 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
There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Dare I hint at that worse time when, strung together somewhere in great black space, there was a flaming necklace, or ring,… — 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
Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in… — 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
There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I… — 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
We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“There was silence, which was not broken until Arthur had stood for some time at the window with his back towards them,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Old Time heaved a moldy sigh from tomb and arch and vault; and gloomy shadows began to deepen in corners; and damps… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate… — 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
