I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man’s opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece...

It matters little, she said, softly. “To you, very little. Another idol has displaced me; and if it can cheer and comfort you in time to come, as I would have tried to do, I...

The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far we are...

Why, I don’t exactly know about perjury, my dear sir, replied the little gentleman. “Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It’s a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more.”

I think it’s liquid aggravation that circulates through his veins, and not regular blood

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer...

Give us kinder laws to bring us back when we’re a-going wrong and don’t set Jail, Jail, Jail afore us everywhere we turn

I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it...

She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be.

A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.

You don’t carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

It was the shadow of Some one who had gone by long before: of Some one who had gone on far away quite out of reach, never, never to come back. It was bright to...

Mrs. Rouncewell holds this opinion because she considers that a family of such antiquity and importance has a right to a ghost. She regards a ghost as one of the privileges of the upper classes,...

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment....

We have had for breakfast, toasts, cakes, a yorkshire pie, a piece of beef about the size and much the shape of my portmanteau, tea, coffee, ham and eggs…

…he walked up and down through life.

Junto dela nunca tive nem uma hora de felicidade, mas, mesmo assim, meu espírito, durante as vinte e quatro horas do dia, ainda desejava a felicidade de tê-la junto de mim até a morte.

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.

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.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

If your governor don’t prove a alleybi, he’ll be what the Italians call reg’larly flummoxed

With a fierce action of her hand, as if she sprinkled hatred on the ground, and with it devoted those who were standing there to destruction, she looked up once at the black sky, and...

Oh! I know their tricks and their manners.

There is no wealth, she went on, turning paler as she watched him, while her eyes grew yet more lustrous in their earnestness, “”that could buy these words of me, and the meaning that belongs...

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman . . .

United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet and Punctual Delivery Company.

It’s my opinion, sir, that this meeting is drunk.

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because...

Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness. The great trees, which had looked shrunken...

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)

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one’s self in...

The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.

I resolved to tell my guardian that I doubted Orlick being the right sort of man to fill a post of trust at Miss Havisham’s. ‘Why of course he is not the right sort of...

As she stooped over him, her tears fell upon his forehead.The boy stirred, and smiled in his sleep, as though these marks of pity and compassion had awakened some pleasant dream of a love and...

Sin embargo, notábanse en esta gente una gentileza y un infantilismo extraordinarios, una incapacidad especial para el engaño, una disposición incansable para ayudarse y compadecerse mutuamente, que merecían con frecuencia tanto respeto y un aprecio...

And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done– done, see you!– under that sky there, every day.

Dickens writes that one of his characters, “listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to...

Lord, keep my memory green.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week,...

. . . judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.

It is required of every man, the ghost returned, “”that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it...

A highly geological home-made cake.

They whirled past the dark trees, as feathers would be swept before a hurricane. Houses, gates, churches, hay-stacks, objects of every kind they shot by, with a velocity and noise like roaring waters suddenly let...