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Would it be weakness to return my love?
— 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
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
— Charles Dickens
Sure, at heart I wanted to be a Dickens, but I hated being great on command.
— Rachel Heffington
I wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common, that he might be worthier of my society and less open to Estella's reproach.
— Charles Dickens
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.
— Charles Dickens
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
— Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
— Charles Dickens
Many a gentleman lives well upon a soft head, who would find a heart of the same quality a very great drawback.
— Charles Dickens
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us! ...
— Charles Dickens
Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.
— Charles Dickens
Women, after all, gentlemen,' said the enthusiastic Mr. Snodgrass, 'are the great props and comforts of our existance.
— Charles Dickens
She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.
— Charles Dickens
The possessor of such great expectations, - farewell, monotonous acquaintances of my childhood, henceforth I was for London and greatness;
— Charles Dickens
Brag is good dog, holdfast is better!
— Charles Dickens
My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property.
— Charles Dickens
Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.
— Charles Dickens
Bear in mind then, that Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.
— Charles Dickens
The great principle of out-of-door relief is, to give the paupers exactly what they don't want; and then they get tired of coming.
— Charles Dickens
I am not aware ... that to think of any person is to make a great claim upon that person, my dear.
— Charles Dickens
After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.
— Claire Tomalin
Perhaps. Perhaps, see the great crowd of people with its rush and roar, bearing down upon them, too.
— Charles Dickens
great men are urged on to the abuse of power (when they need urging, which is not often), by their flatterers and dependents,
— Charles Dickens
To do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be attained will justify.
— Charles Dickens
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
— Charles Dickens
On the Rampage, Pip, and off the Rampage, Pip - such is Life!
— Charles Dickens
All partings foreshadow the great final one.
— Charles Dickens
Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within;.
— Charles Dickens
My great-aunt ... said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens ... She was right.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
CHAPTER XVII OLIVER'S DESTINY, CONTINUING UNPROPITIOUS, BRINGS A GREAT MAN TO LONDON TO INJURE HIS REPUTATION
— Charles Dickens