Quotes from Charles Dickens

the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of

Jackal VI. Hundreds of People VII. Monseigneur in Town VIII. Monseigneur in the Country IX. The Gorgon's Head

great men are urged on to the abuse of power (when they need urging, which is not often), by their flatterers and dependents,

messages, as the spirits of this very year last past (supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped out theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which,

It is required of every man that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world--oh, woe is me!--and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned into happiness.

A word in earnest is as good as a speech

Sentimentalismos! No, no tengo tiempo para ello, pues me paso la vida ocupado en mover inmensas sumas de dinero.

I could not better testify my respect for your sister than by finally relieving her of her brother," said Sydney Carton.

Never,' said my aunt, 'be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.

Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever Book the First—Recalled

So entirely had it lost the life and resonance of the human voice, that it affected the senses like a once beautiful colour faded away into a poor weak stain.

He was a mere child in the world, but he didn't cry for the moon.

There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say," returned

some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with

O Agnes, O my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when realities are melting from me, like the shadows which I now dismiss, still find thee near me, pointing upward!

He had a particular pride in the phrase eminently practical, which was considered to have a special application to him.

Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?

There was a moral infection of clap-trap in him.

Track of a Storm I. In Secret II. The Grindstone III. The Shadow IV. Calm in Storm

the Shadow XI. Dusk XII. Darkness XIII. Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps

But his heart was heavy, notwithstanding; and he wished, as he crept into his narrow bed, that that were his coffin, and that he could be lain in a calm and lasting sleep in the churchyard ground, with the tall grass waving gently above his head, and the sound of the old deep bell to soothe him in his sleep.

Why should I regret my incapacity for details and worldly affairs, when it leads to such pleasant consequences

in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted

I was resolute in repulsing him; for I had determined when I went there, that no one should pity me or condescend to me. But he wrote me a letter. It led to our being engaged to be married.