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