I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The water of the fountain ran, the swift river ran, the day ran into evening, so much life in the city ran… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"Lord bless you!" said Mr. Omer, resuming his pipe, "a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The jovial party broke up next morning. Breakings-up are capital things in our school-days, but in after life they are painful enough.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is, as Mr. Rokesmith says, a matter of feeling, but Lor how many matters ARE matters of feeling! — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen… — 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
"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit? — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire. — 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
