Charles Dickens Quotes, Party Quotes, Mean Quotes

Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.

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In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.

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And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through which it had since groped, and knew of nothing beyond the Marshalsea.

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The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

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Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

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I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all.

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[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.

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The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer's morning, is most striking even to the few whose unfortunate pursuits of pleasure, or scarcely less unfortunate pursuits of business, cause them to be well acquainted with the scene. There is an air of cold, solitary desolation about the noiseless streets which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a busy, eager crowd, and over the quiet, closely-shut buildings, which throughout the day are swarming with life and bustle, that is very impressive.

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I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he read, and made clammy tracks along the page (or so I fully believed) like a snail.

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And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment.

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God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

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Mr. Tulkinghorn, sitting in the twilight by the open window, enjoys his wine. As if it whispered to him of its fifty years of silence and seclusion, it shuts him up the closer. More impenetrable than ever, he sits, and drinks, and mellows as it were in secrecy, pondering at that twilight hour on all the mysteries he knows.

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Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

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Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

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My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.

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Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life.

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Change begets change.

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There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea.

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He says-him as was here just now-'When Tom shut up the house, mate, to go to rack, the beds was left, all made, like as if somebody was a-going to sleep in every bed. And if you was to walk through the bedrooms now, you'd see the ragged mouldy bedclothes a heaving and a heaving like seas. And a heaving and a heaving with what?' he says. 'Why, with the rats under 'em.'

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Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

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