Quote by Charles Dickens Download Open image ““Fairy-land to visit, but a desert to live in”” — Charles Dickens ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“But I felt like I'd made a journey to the land of fairytales only to find out that the magical world was identical to… — Holly Schindler Copy Share Image
“Just because you wander in the desert, it does not mean there is a promised land.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales were the door to the world of imagination for me as a child, that land I often lived in when real life… — Regan Walker Copy Share Image
“The idea of fairyland fascinates me because it's one of those things, like mermaids and dragons, that doesn't really exist, but everyone knows about… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
“We are in this fairyland on sufferance; it is not for us to quarrel with the conditions under which we enjoy this wild vision… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Many of us have lived desert lives: very small on the surface, and enormous under the ground.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“To picture the desert as a place where trees are capable of growing is an act of faith.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“What makes a desert so beautiful is that it hides a well somewhere...” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“There are oasis in deserts...so also in a life of conflicting situations, we can build our own beautiful home.” — Rajesh U.K Copy Share Image
“...we all have our own deserts. Thet may not be the same as my desert, but we all have to cross them to find… — Yeonmi Park Copy Share Image
“What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 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
