It was as true as taxes is. And nothing’s truer than them.

So now, as an infallible way of making little ease great ease, I began to contract a quantity of debt.

O you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?

I wants to make your flesh creep.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

But the windows of the house of Memory, and the windows of the house of Mercy, are not so easily closed as windows of glass and wood. They fly open unexpectedly; they rattle in the...

Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.

Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for this is thy dominion! But of the loved, revered, and honoured...

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for...

But struggling with these better feelings was pride,–the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured. The miserable companion of thieves and ruffians, the fallen outcast of...

My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.

There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old woman might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts...

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

Now, what I want is, facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of...

Not presume to dictate, but broiled fowl and mushrooms – capital thing!

As she frequently remarked when she made any such mistake, it would be all the same a hundred years hence.

He would make a lovely corpse.

He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.

Some medical beast had revived tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard; having a belief in its virtues correspondent to its nastiness....

These sequestered nooks are the public offices of the legal profession, where writs are issued, judgments signed, declarations filed, and numerous other ingenious machines put in motion for the torture and torment of His Majesty’s...

Oh Jaggerth, Jaggerth, Jaggerth! all otherth ith Cag-Maggerth, give me Jaggerth!

Lead on! said Scrooge. “”Lead on! The night is waning fast, and it is precious time to me, I know. Lead on, Spirit!””

It was the best of times

I should like to ask you: — Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your mother’s knee, seem days of very long ago?” Responding to his softened manner, Mr....

My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to...

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

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

The day wore on, and all these bright colours subsided, and assumed a quieter tint, like young hopes softened down by time, or youthful features by degrees resolving into the calm and serenity of age....

Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think to be phenomenons, quite … Aye, and even in gen-teel families, in high families, in great families …...

My face might be a martyrdom, but what would that import, or who should know it, if I smiled?”And she did smile; manifestly freezing the blood of Mr. George Sampson by so doing. For that...

Whenever a person says to you that they are as innocent as lambs in all concerning money, look well after your own money, for they are dead certain to collar it, if they can. Whenever...

Eu vou dizer-te o que é o amor verdadeiro. É o devotamento cego, humilhação de si mesmo sem questionamento, submissão absoluta, é fé e confiança contra si mesmo e contra o mundo inteiro, é entregar-se...

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

Of all my old associations, of all my old pursuits and hopes, of all the living and the dead world, this one poor soul alone comes natural to me, and I am fit for. There...

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Thus, it comes to pass, that a certain room in a certain old hall, where a certain bad lord, baronet, knight, or gentleman, shot himself, has certain planks in the floor from which the blood...

Never sign a Valentine with your own name.

It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping...

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape

She’s the only sylph I ever saw, who could stand upon one leg, and play the tambourine on her other knee, like a sylph.

I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can’t beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.

But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive . . . nor worms forget.””

There are only two styles of portrait painting, the serious and the smirk

A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper — a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

He spoke in hard and angry earnest, if a man ever did,” replied the girl, shaking her head. “He is an earnest man when his hatred is up. I know many who do worse things;...

Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on...