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She came out here ... turned this way, must have trod on these stones often. Let me follow in her steps. — Charles Dickens

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

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day. — 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

To have on her head a most wonderful bonnet like a Grenadier wooden measure, and good measure too, or a great Stilton cheese, — Charles Dickens

The largest two books I've ever read more than once are 'Bleak House' by Charles Dickens and 'The Stand' by Stephen King, about 1,200 pages each. — Simon Toyne

Madame Defarge immediately called to her husband that she would get them, and went, knitting, out of the lamplight, through the courtyard — Charles Dickens

Master Bates sauntering along with his hands in his pockets ... — Charles Dickens

To be the hero of my life or forever its victim. — Charles Dickens

It's like a Charles Dickens orphanage collided with a furniture-store showroom. — Craig Schaefer

Commence," was Monsieur Defarge's not unreasonable reply, "at the commencement. — Charles Dickens

Lovers had loved before, and lovers would love again; but no lover had ever loved, might, could, would, or should ever love, as I loved Dora. — Charles Dickens

Book the First - Recalled to Life — Charles Dickens

If he was only sorry, he wouldn't look at me as he does. I am only sorry, and it makes me feel kinder. — Charles Dickens

Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime. — Charles Dickens

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you. — Charles Dickens

A new heart for a New Year, always! — Charles Dickens

If you deserve it, and repent in action - not in words. I want no more words. — Charles Dickens

Trifles make the sum of life. — Charles Dickens

If you have a suspicion in your own breast, keep that suspicion in your own breast. — Charles Dickens

I don't want to know anything. I am not curious! — Charles Dickens

My hair stands on end at the cost and charges of these boys. Why was I ever a father! Why was my father ever a father! — Charles Dickens

I hope,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'that our volatile friend is committing no absurdities in that dickey behind. — Charles Dickens

The journey has been its own reward. That, — Charles Dickens

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort. — Charles Dickens

Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions. — Charles Dickens

Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him. — Charles Dickens

Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene. — Ian McKellen

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself. — Charles Dickens

...mysteries arise out of close love, as well as out of wide division... — Charles Dickens

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men. — Charles Dickens

There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect — Charles Dickens

Oh, let us love our occupations,
Bless the squire and his relations,
Live upon our daily rations,
And always know our proper stations. — Charles Dickens

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine. — Charles Dickens

He couldn't finish the name. The final letter swelled in his throat, to the size of the whole alphabet. — Charles Dickens

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens. — Jodi Picoult

I don't know anything, I never did know anything, but now I know I don't know anything! — Charles Dickens

achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body — Charles Dickens

Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. — Charles Dickens

we had everything before us, — Charles Dickens

Man is but mortal; and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend. — Charles Dickens

We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later. — Charles Dickens

The mad joy over the prisoners who were saved, had astounded him scarcely less than the mad ferocity against those who were cut to pieces. — Charles Dickens

[He] should come to the knowledge of the step, as a step taken, and not in the balance of suspense and doubt. — Charles Dickens

Third - the Track of a Storm I. In Secret II. The Grindstone III. The Shadow IV. — Charles Dickens

It's not personal; it's professional: only professional. — Charles Dickens

Two other passengers, besides the one, were plodding up the hill by the side of the mail. All three were wrapped to the cheekbones — Charles Dickens

Hunger was shred into atomics in every farthing porringer of husky chips of potato, fried with some reluctant drops of oil. — Charles Dickens

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. — Charles Dickens

But, like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield — Charles Dickens

Indeed, I felt almost ashamed to have done so little and have won so much. — Charles Dickens

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd. — Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart. — 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

We are very glad to see you, Oliver, very,' said the Jew. — Charles Dickens

Now, being prepared for almost anything, he was not by any means prepared for nothing... — Charles Dickens

A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange! — Charles Dickens

I have such unmanageable thoughts,' returned his sister, 'that they will wonder.' 'Then — 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

Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses
a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness. — Charles Dickens

I wished that I had some other guardian of minor abilities. — Charles Dickens

these memoirs would never have appeared; or, — Charles Dickens

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire. — Charles Dickens

Door VIII. A Hand at Cards IX. The Game Made X. The Substance of the Shadow — Charles Dickens

As lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on. — Charles Dickens

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it. — Charles Dickens

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew. — Charles Dickens

Something Wrong Somewhere — Charles Dickens

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it. — 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

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

Christmas may not bring a single thing; still, it gives me a song to sing. — 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

I have to say, not a day goes by when I don't think fondly about 'Deadwood' and miss things about it. — Kim 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

Miss Sarah Pocket, whom I now saw to be a little dry brown corrugated old woman, with a small face that might have been made of walnut shells ... — Charles Dickens

There was a little too much of the best intentions going on — Charles Dickens

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman. — 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

The heavy bell of St. Paul's cathedral rang out, announcing the death of another day. — Charles Dickens

The limitless jet-lag purgatory of Immigration and Baggage at Heathrow. — Monica 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

Of course they had more chains on him than Scrooge saw on Marley's ghost, but he could have kicked up dickens if he'd wanted. That's a pun, son. — Stephen King

Why should you particularly like a man who resembles you? There is nothing in you to like; you know that. — 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

The First - Recalled to Life I. The Period II. The Mail III. The Night Shadows IV. The Preparation V. The Wine-shop — Charles Dickens

Don't be afraid to hear me. Don't shrink from anything I say. I am like one who died young: all my life might have been. — Charles Dickens

I had a confident expectation that things would come round and be all square. — Charles Dickens

Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you ... — Charles Dickens

First - Recalled to Life I. The Period II. The Mail III. The Night Shadows IV. The Preparation V. The — 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

Why, if it had been--a smothering instead of a wedding, — Charles Dickens

I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it apart from a few characters. — Burn Gorman