I positively adore Miss Dombey; – I-I am perfectly sore with loving her.

The object of our lives is won. Henceforth let us wear it silently. My lips are closed upon the past from this hour. I forgive you your part in to-morrow’s wickedness. May God forgive my...

It’s calm and – what’s that word again – critical! – no – classical, that’s it – it is calm and classical.

A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and...

Although it’s a long time on the road, it is on the road and coming. I tell thee it never retreats, and never stops.

The rich, sweet smell of the hayricks rose to his chamber window; the hundred perfumes of the little flower-garden beneath scented the air around; the deep-green meadows shone in the morning dew that glistened on...

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Our love had begun in folly, and ended in madness!

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.

He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of...

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can’t pay, gets another person who can’t pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with other men, and used to companionship with his own thoughts. He had never known before the strength of the want in...

Who am I, for God’s sake, that I should be kind!

I have seen enough, too, to know that it is not always the youngest and best who are spared to those that love them; but this should give us comfort rather than sorrow, for Heaven...

Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite...

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families

Walter, she said, looking full upon him with her affectionate eyes, “like you, I hope for better things. I will pray for them, and believe that they will arrive.”

There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories – Ghost Stories, or more shame for us – round the Christmas fire;...

Put it down a we, my lord, put it down a we!

It’s nothing, returned Mrs Chick. “”It’s merely change of weather. We must expect change.””

All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth...

Mr Podsnap settled that whatever he put behind him he put out of existence . . . Mr Podsnap had even acquired a peculiar flourish of his right arm in often clearing the world of...

Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.

Polly put the kettle on, we’ll all have tea

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business...

It was considered at the time a striking proof of virtue in the young king that he was sorry for his father’s death;but, as common subjects have that virtue too, sometimes, we will say no...

I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying...

I’m a devil at a quick mistake, and when I make one it takes the form of Lead.

Mr Cobb would acquaint him, that when he was his age, his father thought no more of giving him a parental kick, or a box on the ears, or a cuff on the head, or...

I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could be to one another; to see how they felt for one another, how...

Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer,” said Mrs. Maylie; “I know that the devotion and affection of her nature require no ordinary return, but one...

It’s over, and can’t be helped, and that’s one consolation, as they always says in Turkey, when they cuts the wrong man’s head off

A literary man – with a wooden leg.

I am one by myself, one, said Mortimer, “high up an awful staircase commanding a burial-ground, and I have a whole clerk to myself, and he has nothing to do but look at the burial-ground,...

I think . . . that it is the best club in London.

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.

In the absence of the planet Venus, who has gone on business to the Horse Guards.

[And the holiday season is a time in which thoughts and efforts naturally turn in this direction.] We choose this time, … because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt,...

The school is not quite deserted, said the Ghost. “”A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.””

Something will come of this. I hope it mayn’t be human gore.

There are some upon this earth of yours, returned the Spirit, “”who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who...

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

his face, though lined, bore few traces of anxiety. But, perhaps the confidential bachelor clerks in Tellson’s Bank were principally occupied with the cares of other people; and perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come...