Quotes from Charles Dickens

Plea XXI. Echoing Footsteps XXII. The Sea Still Rises XXIII. Fire Rises XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock

Yes, sir!' from one half. 'No, sir!' from the other. 'Of

May I ask you if you have ever had an opportunity of remarking, down in your part of the country, that the children of not exactly suitable marriages, are always most particularly anxious to be married?

Its other name was Satis; which is Greek, or Latin, or Hebrew, or all three - or all one to me - for enough.' 'Enough House,' said I; 'that's a curious name, miss.' 'Yes,' she replied; 'but it meant more than it said. It meant, when it was given, that whoever had this house, could want nothing else.

IT WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT A GRAVE HAD OPENED IN MY ROAD OF LIFE, AND the gap it made in the smooth ground was wonderful.

I assumed my first undivided responsibility.

Darkness XIII. Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us! Call Estella.

There was a curious mixture in the boy, of uncompleted savagery, and uncompleted civilization.

You are wery obligin', sir,' replied Sam. 'Now, don't allow yourself to be fatigued beyond your powers; there's a amiable bein'. Consider what you owe to society, and don't let yourself be injured by too much work. For the sake o' your feller-creeturs, keep yourself as quiet as you can; only think what a loss you would be!' With these pathetic words, Sam Weller departed.

tumbrils of the Revolution. But that Woodman and that Farmer,

We are friends," said I, rising and bending over her, as she rose from the bench. "And will continue friends apart," said Estella. I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.

When the French come over, May we meet them at Dover!

You are to be in all things regulated and governed,' said the gentleman, 'by fact.

I will not say that everything was utterly commonplace, becuase I doubt if anything can be that, except to utterly commonplace people - and there my vanity steps in...

period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body

was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of

I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the reading, more than I have believed it in the writing.

In the front first floor, a clerk who looked something between a publican and a rat-catcher — a large pale, puffed, swollen man — was attentively engaged with three or four people of shabby appearance, whom he treated as unceremoniously as everybody seemed to be treated who contributed to Mr. Jaggers's coffers.

There are many things from which I might have derived good by which I have not profited,

I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause.

A person is never known till a person is proved.

varieties of sunken cheek, cadaverous