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Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye. — Charles Dickens

Who am I, for God's sake, that I should be kind! — Charles Dickens

Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history. — Charles Dickens

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit? — Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own — Charles Dickens

Nor was Mr. Bumble's gloom the only thing calculated to awaken a pleasing melancholy in the bosom of a spectator. There — Charles Dickens

Little Dorrit that she had not seen Mr F.'s Aunt so full of life and character for weeks; that she would find it necessary to — Charles Dickens

My blood!" ejaculated the vexed coachman, "and not atop of Shooter's yet! Tst! Yah! Get on with you!" The emphatic horse, cut short by the whip — Charles Dickens

Ah, that 'if.' But it's of no use to despond. I can but do that, when I have tried everything and failed, and even then it won't serve me much. — Charles Dickens

It's in vain, Trot, to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. — Charles Dickens

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

I'm a country girl; I like country music. That's what my car radio is on. — Kim Dickens

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing. — Oscar Wilde

When a plunge is to be made into the water, it's of no use lingering on the bank. — Charles Dickens

It's humbug still!" said Scrooge. "I won't believe it. — Charles Dickens

It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back. — Charles Dickens

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. — Charles Dickens

Fortune or misfortune, a man can but try; there's not to be done without trying - accept laying down and dying. — Charles Dickens

Death is Nature's remedy for all things, — Charles Dickens

Alice!" said the visitor's mild voice, "am I late to-night?"
"You always seem late, but are always early. — Charles Dickens

I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth. — Charles Dickens

Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets. — Charles Dickens

The society of girls is a very delightful thing, Copperfield. It's not professional, but it's very delightful. — Charles Dickens

I nearly fell asleep over Dickens in English. Mind you, he's snoozeworthy at the best of times. — Jo Walton

I'm totally obsessed with Dickens, and 'Great Expectations' was one of the first book's I read when I was still in school in Porthcawl. — Paul Rhys

Heavy drops fall - drip, drip, drip - upon the broad flagged pavement, called from old time the Ghost's Walk, all night. — Charles Dickens

Scrooge never painted out Old Marley's name. There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge — Charles Dickens

"Lord bless you!" said Mr. Omer, resuming his pipe, "a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must make up his mind to, in this life. " — Charles Dickens

His pain is over. It's better as it is!' Mrs. Tugby tried to comfort her with kindness. Mr. Tugby tried philosophy. — Charles Dickens

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Some conjurers say that number three is the magic number, and some say number seven. It's neither my friend, neither. It's number one. (Fagin) — Charles Dickens

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today? — Charles Dickens

In Town VIII. Monseigneur in the Country IX. The Gorgon's Head X. Two Promises XI. A Companion Picture — Charles Dickens

As to sleep, you know, I never sleep now. I might be a Watchman, except that I don't get any pay, and he's got nothing on his mind. — Charles Dickens

This history must sometimes see with Little Dorrit's eyes, and shall begin that course by seeing him. — Charles Dickens

I never heerd ... nor read of nor see in picters, any angel in tights and gaiters ... but ... he's a reg'lar thoroughbred angel for all that. — Charles Dickens

Don't believe that,' said Fagin. 'When a man's his own enemy, it's only because he's too much his own friend. — Charles Dickens

In came the cook, with her brother's particular friend, the milkman. — Charles Dickens

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces. — Anne Rice

Mr. Vholes's office, in disposition retiring and in situation retired, is squeezed up in a corner and blinks at a dead wall. — Charles Dickens

Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's misused oppurtunities! — Charles Dickens

Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation. — Charles Dickens

Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy. — Charles Dickens

The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense. — Charles Dickens

CHAPTER XXX RELATES WHAT OLIVER'S NEW VISITORS THOUGHT OF HIM — Charles Dickens

Town VIII. Monseigneur in the Country IX. The Gorgon's Head — Charles Dickens

said Mr. Toots, whose fervour of acquiescence was greatly heightened by his entire ignorance of the Captain's meaning. — Charles Dickens

I ain't took so many year to make a gentleman, not without knowing what's due to him. — Charles Dickens

They'll not blame me. They'll not object to me. They'll not mind what I do, if it's wrong. I'm only Mr. Dick. — Charles Dickens

It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off. — Charles Dickens

He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic. — Charles Dickens

Give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister, - Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith. As — Charles Dickens

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused — Charles Dickens

"Well," said my aunt, "this is his boy - his son. He would be as like his father as it's possible to be, if he was not so like his mother, too." — Charles Dickens

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature. — Charles Dickens

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more. — Andrew Davies

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London. — Connie Willis

David Copperfield from head to foot! Calls a house a rookery when there's not a rook near it, and takes the birds on trust, because he sees the nests! — Charles Dickens

She's the sort of woman now,' said Mould, ... 'one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too! — Charles Dickens

It's a gloomy thing, however, to talk about one's own past, with the day breaking. — Charles Dickens

my brother's cognac and tobacco talk — Charles Dickens

CHAPTER XVII OLIVER'S DESTINY, CONTINUING UNPROPITIOUS, BRINGS A GREAT MAN TO LONDON TO INJURE HIS REPUTATION — Charles Dickens

Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to. — Charles Dickens

For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love. — Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told. — Charles Dickens

If you find yourselves in cuttings or in tunnels, don't you play no secret games, Keep your whistles going, and let's know where you are. — Charles Dickens

Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman. — Charles Dickens

Country IX. The Gorgon's Head X. Two Promises XI. A Companion Picture XII. The Fellow — Charles Dickens

Hours are golden links
God's tokens reaching heaven. — Charles Dickens

CHAPTER LII THE JEW'S LAST NIGHT ALIVE — Charles Dickens

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

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

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

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

Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin! — Charles Dickens

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure. — Charles Dickens

Why, how's this?' muttered the Jew: changing countenance; 'only two of 'em? Where's the third? They can't have got into trouble. Hark! — Charles Dickens

CHAPTER XLII AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE OF OLIVER'S, EXHIBITING DECIDED MARKS OF GENIUS, BECOMES A PUBLIC CHARACTER IN THE METROPOLIS — Charles Dickens

and white wrappers, and this only changed in the 1860s. But Uncle Allan is quite taken with Dickens's and Thackeray's — Sandra Schwab

Marley's Ghost bothered him exceedingly. — Charles Dickens

Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens
Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p'raps a Duke of
Dickens — W.S. Gilbert

Steve Zahn and I like to go to dinner, and we love to go to Chef Donald Link's Herb Saint. — Kim Dickens

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield — David Nicholls

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society. — Charles Dickens

A boy with Somebody-else's pork pie! Stop him! — Charles Dickens

In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven. — Charles Dickens

In Charles Dickens's books I had to admire the way the meanest enemies spoke to each other, with what seemed to me to be the greatest civility. — Jane Hamilton

CHAPTER L MR. TOOTS'S COMPLAINT — Charles Dickens

What I said had nothing to do with you. Why need you go trying on other people's hats? — Charles Dickens

Her father, cheering her, showed a compassionate superiority to this woman's weakness, which was wonderful to see. — Charles Dickens

It's only about young Twist, my dear,' said Mr. Sowerberry. 'A very good-looking boy, that, my dear. — Charles Dickens

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. — Charles Dickens

Persons don't make their own faces, and it's no more my fault if mine is a good one than it is other people's fault if theirs is a bad one. — Charles Dickens

What's ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn't they? — Danielle Steel

"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change." — Charles Dickens

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. — Charles Dickens

Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out. — Charles Dickens