Quotes from Charles Dickens

they had a weazen little baby, with a heavy head that it couldn't hold up, and two weak staring eyes, with which it seemed to be always wondering why it had ever been born. It

This, again, was among the fictions of Coketown. Any capitalist there, who had made sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, always professed to wonder why the sixty thousand nearest Hands didn't each make sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, and more or less reproached them every one for not accomplishing the little feat. What I did you can do. Why don't you go and do it?

In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared by the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood who had taken a lively interest in me several months before there was any possibility of our becoming personally

Fu, per me, un giorno memorabile, gravido di profondi cambiamenti nella mia vita. Ma succede così per qualunque vita. Immaginate di eliminarne un certo giorno, e pensate un po' come il suo corso sarebbe stato diverso! Fermati, tu che leggi, e pensa per un attimo alla lunga catena di ferro o d'oro, di spine o di fiori, che mai ti avrebbe legato se, in un solo memorabile giorno, non se ne fosse costruito il primo anello.

I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas. Whether

Hallow! Below there!

Gene de, Estella'y? dü?ündü?üm zaman..." Herbert gözlerini ate?ten ay?rmaks?z?n, "Estella'y? dü?ünmedi?in zaman var m? ki?" diye araya girdi.

I have undergone too much, my friend, to feel pride or squeamishness now. Except - added Nicholas, hastily, after a short silence - except such squeamishness as is common honesty, and so much pride as constitutes self-respect.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and—and in short you are for ever floored. As I am!

A jednak by?em na tyle s?aby i jestem na tyle s?aby, by pragn??, aby pani dowiedzia?a si?, jak? w?adz? ma pani nade mn?, ?e z garstki popio?u, któr? jestem, zmieniam si? w p?omie?.

Otra vez preguntándote cosas! —dijo Tom. —Mis pensamientos son tan indómitos, que todo lo miran asombrados —contestóle, la hermana.

If I could have known Cicero, and been his friend, and talked with him in his retirement at Tusculum (beau-ti-ful Tusculum l), I could have died contented.

Copperfield,' he said at length, in a breathless voice, 'have you taken leave of your senses?' 'I have taken leave of you,' said I, wresting my hand away. 'You dog, I'll know no more of you.

was sometimes apprehensive that he might be at that very moment an interesting case of spontaneous combustion, without having the consolation of knowing it. At last, however, he began to think—as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it.

Ah, how I loved her! What happiness (I thought) if we were married, and were going away anywhere to live among the trees and in the fields, never growing older, never growing wiser, children ever, rambling hand in hand through sunshine and among flowery meadows, laying down our heads on moss at night, in a sweet sleep of purity and peace, and buried by the birds when we were dead!

I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath, and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a

I went forth last night on compulsion I learnt a lesson which is working now .

böyle zavall? dü?lere dudak büküp geçse de ben Estella'y? bunca y?ld?r can?mdan çok sevmi?tim. Gerçi onu kaybetmi?tim, ellerim bö?rümde onsuz ya?amaya yarg?l?yd?m, gene de onunla ilgili olan her bilgi benim için dünyada her ?eyden daha önemli, her ?eyden daha de?erliydi.

All this, I say, is yesterday's event. Events of later date have floated from me to the shore where all forgotten things will reappear, but this stands like a high rock in the ocean.

Al que renuncia a intentarlo no le queda ya otro recurso que acostarse y dejarse morir.

Ben öldükten sonra gün gelir, Richmond'daki ye?il alana bakan o, a??rba?l? eski evde bir hortlak türerse, hiç ku?kusuz bu benim hortla??m olacakt?r. Estella orada oturdu?u sürece benim dirliksiz ruhum gece gündüz dinlemeden o eve nas?l da dadanm??t? bilseniz! Kendim nerede olursam olay?m, ruhum her günün her dakikas?nda o evin içinde, rahat yüzü bilmeyerek dönüyor dola??yordu.

Power, unless it be the power of intellect or virtue, has ever the greatest attraction for the lowest natures.

Es conveniente que el lector haga una pausa al leer esto, y piense por un momento en la larga cadena de hierro o de oro, de espinas o de flores, que jamás le hubiera rodeado a no ser por el primer eslabón que se formó en un día memorable.

Who suffers by his ill whims! Himself, always.