Best Charles Dickens Thoughts
- 'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal,… Calm
- But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer. Inspirational
- Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do that; neither can… Anything Without
- ... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably… Affection
- The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is… All
- It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they… Break
- Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide. Adage
- The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came out in the… Air
- When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another… Abyss
- And the voices in the waves are always whispering to Florence, in their ceaseless murmuring, of love - of love, eternal and illimitable, not bounded… Always Whispering
- "Ay," said the Captain, reverentially; "it's a almighty element. There's wonders in the deep, my pretty. Think on it when the winds is roaring and… Afore
- "I am not afeard, my Heart's-delight," resumed the Captain. "There's been most uncommon bad weather in them latitudes, there's no denyin', and they have drove… Afeard
- He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying… Angry
- She's the sort of woman now,' said Mould, . . . 'one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too! Almost Feel
- The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from behind… Apace
- His gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from him. Many of… Alphabet
- At last, in the dead of the night, when the street was very still indeed, Little Dorrit laid the heavy head upon her bosom, and… Alone
- Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was not the light… Along
- When she took her opposite place in the carriage corner, the brightness in her face was so charming to behold, that on her exclaiming, "What… Beautiful
- Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older,… Bills
- He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So… Alike
- You should keep dogs-fine animals-sagacious. Animal
- He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been, in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have… Addled
- My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention Attention
- Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with a high fence,… Any