Charles DickensDeath may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.371DeathLife
Charles DickensThe unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often… ▶371HopeHumanityLove
Charles DickensI see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman, weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I… ▶372Love
Charles DickensCheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.361Sadness
Charles DickensFan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. ✨ 'The Old Curiosity Shop' (1841) ch. 7 (Dick Swiveller)361Philosophy
Charles DickensI took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir. ✨… ▶351Sadness
Charles DickensEvery baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. ✨ Nicholas Nickleby Ch. 36373Hope
Charles DickensStephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who looks into ten thousand faces for some answering look… ▶351HumanityLifeTime
Charles DickensI have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to beat, I would cease to be. But you know what I mean. I have no softness there, no—symp… ▶373LoveTime
Charles Dickens... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will c… ▶351LifeLoveThought
Charles DickensTime has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it. ✨ Charles Dickens (2016). Barnaby Rudge, p.129, Tyché373Time
Charles DickensConstancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort. ✨ Charles Dickens (2010). Bleak House, p.207, Broadview P… ▶362Love
Charles DickensI 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 of music of mine,… ▶362Thought
Charles DickensBe guided, only by the healer of the sick, the raiser of the dead, the friend of all who were afflicted and forlorn, the patient Master who shed tears of compassion for our infirm… ▶362DeathLifeLove
Charles DickensKeep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's goin… ▶373Death
Charles DickensAnd still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable. ✨ Charle… ▶363Thought
Charles DickensAnd therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it! 341Reading
Charles DickensListlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Let me look up from it - as at last I did, thank Heaven! - and from its long, s… ▶363LoveReadingSadness
Charles DickensHe was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten. ✨ J. M. Barrie,… ▶363HopeLifeLove
Charles DickensLawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness. ✨ Charles Dickens (1842). The Posthumous Papers of the P… ▶341Politics
Charles DickensOne great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust . . . you no sooner set up an idol firmly, than yo… ▶375ThoughtTimeTruth
Charles DickensI stole her heart away and put ice in its place. ✨ Charles Dickens (1881). Great Expectations, p.436342Love
Charles DickensTo see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeable too - it really was - to see… ▶342ReadingThought
Charles DickensGold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase ✨ Charles Dickens (1867). The Life and Adve… ▶331LifeLove
Charles DickensMr Jarndyce, and prevented his going any farther, when he had remarked that there were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of … ▶375Humanity
Charles DickensOther sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those dark nights that hold their breath by the hour toget… ▶353Reflection
Charles DickensTo be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmt… ▶353Time
Charles DickensIt was darkly rumoured that the butler, regarding him with favour such as that stern man had never shown before to mortal boy, had sometimes mingled porter with his table beer to … ▶342DeathTime
Charles DickensThe one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow t… ▶353PoliticsThought
Charles DickensAnd O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. ✨ Charles Dickens (2006). Our Mutual Friend: Easyread Comfort Edition, p.191, ReadHowYouWant.com331DeathLifeReading
