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British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any
— Charles Dickens
CHAPTER IX CONTAINING FURTHER PARTICULARS CONCERNING THE PLEASANT OLD GENTLEMAN, AND HIS HOPEFUL PUPILS
— Charles Dickens
Who am I, for God's sake, that I should be kind!
— Charles Dickens
To have a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!
— Charles Dickens
"Oh!" said my aunt, "I was not aware at first to whom I had the pleasure of objecting."
— Charles Dickens
morsels of tesselated pavement from Herculaneum and Pompeii, like petrified minced veal;
— Charles Dickens
Madame Defarge immediately called to her husband that she would get them, and went, knitting, out of the lamplight, through the courtyard
— Charles Dickens
He had expected labour, and he found it, and did it and made the best of it. In this, his prosperity consisted.
— Charles Dickens
The heavy bell of St. Paul's cathedral rang out, announcing the death of another day.
— Charles Dickens
There was a little too much of the best intentions going on
— Charles Dickens
Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead
— Charles Dickens
Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell.
— Charles Dickens
I have often remarked- I suppose everybody has- that one's going away from a familiar place, would seem to be the signal for a change in it.
— Charles Dickens
Your voice and music are the same to me.
— Charles Dickens
I believe I had a delirious idea of seizing the red-hot poker out of the fire, and running him through with it.
— Charles Dickens
She kisses his lips; he kisses hers; they solemnly bless each other. The spare hand does not tremble
— Charles Dickens
Come! Let us make that bargain. Think of me at my best, if circumstances should ever part us!
— Charles Dickens
Had been sitting with his face turned towards the fire: giving the palms of his hands a warm and a rub alternately. As the young woman spoke, he
— Charles Dickens
Why should you particularly like a man who resembles you? There is nothing in you to like; you know that.
— Charles Dickens
When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.
— Charles Dickens
A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
— Charles Dickens
Money and goods are certainly the best of references.
— Charles Dickens
The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.
— Charles Dickens
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.
— Charles Dickens
Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!
— Charles Dickens
I nearly fell asleep over Dickens in English. Mind you, he's snoozeworthy at the best of times.
— Jo Walton
The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy; walk and be healthy. The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose.
— Charles Dickens
And memory, however sad, is the best and purest link between this world and a better. But come! I'll tell you a story of another kind.
— Charles Dickens
A howling corner in the winter time, a dusty corner in the summer time, an undesirable corner at the best of times.
— Charles Dickens
No, Mr. Carton. I am sure that the best part of it might still be; I am sure that you might be much, much worthier of yourself.
— Charles Dickens
Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.
— Charles Dickens
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
— Charles Dickens
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
— Charles Dickens
Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
— Charles Dickens
I go home in a state of unspeakable bliss, and waltz in imagination, all night long, with my arm around the blue waist of my dear divinity.
— Charles Dickens
My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.
— Charles Dickens
Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class.
— Charles Dickens
It does not take a long time," said madame, "for an earthquake to swallow a town. Eh well! Tell me how long it takes to prepare the earthquake?
— Charles Dickens
Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.
— Charles Dickens
Something Wrong Somewhere
— Charles Dickens
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
— Charles Dickens
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.
— Charles Dickens
As lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.
— Charles Dickens
Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.
— Charles Dickens
Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.
— Charles Dickens
these memoirs would never have appeared; or,
— Charles Dickens
I wished that I had some other guardian of minor abilities.
— Charles Dickens
Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses
a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness. — Charles Dickens
a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness. — Charles Dickens
The First - Recalled to Life I. The Period II. The Mail III. The Night Shadows IV. The Preparation V. The Wine-shop
— Charles Dickens
I have such unmanageable thoughts,' returned his sister, 'that they will wonder.' 'Then
— Charles Dickens
A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!
— Charles Dickens
Now, being prepared for almost anything, he was not by any means prepared for nothing...
— Charles Dickens
We are very glad to see you, Oliver, very,' said the Jew.
— Charles Dickens
Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.
— Charles Dickens
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
— Charles Dickens
Why, if it had been--a smothering instead of a wedding,
— Charles Dickens
My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.
— Charles Dickens
First - Recalled to Life I. The Period II. The Mail III. The Night Shadows IV. The Preparation V. The
— Charles Dickens
Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you ...
— Charles Dickens