Charles Dickens Quotes, Love Quotes, Wife Quotes

"You see," said Mr. Toots, "what I wanted in a wife was - in short, was sense. Money, Feeder, I had. Sense I - I had not, particularly."

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Love Quotes , Wife Quotes

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Caring Quotes , Clouds Quotes

Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of day: glimmered faintly in the sky. The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes. The rain came down, thick and fast; and pattered, noisily, among the leafless bushes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Morning Quotes , Rain Quotes

It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Men Quotes

The 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 turnings.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Law Quotes , Principles Quotes

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Halloween Quotes , Creativity Quotes

" ... It is not my desire to wound the feelings of any person with whom I am connected in family bonds. I may be a hypocrite," said Mr. Pecksniff, cuttingly, "but I am not a brute."

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Funny Quotes , Humorous Quotes

We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Silence Quotes

"Well," said my aunt, "this is his boy - his son. He would be as like his father as it's possible to be, if he was not so like his mother, too."

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Funny Quotes , Mother Quotes

Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Eye Quotes , Camels Quotes

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Art Quotes , Children Quotes

You have been the last dream of my soul.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Dream Quotes , Cities Quotes

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Heart Quotes

Surely there had been no figure leaning on the back of his chair; no face looking over it. It is certain that no gliding footstep touched the floor, as he lifted up his head, with a start, and spoke. And yet there was no mirror in the room on whose surface his own form could have cast its shadow for a moment; and, Something had passed darkly and gone!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Mirrors Quotes , Shadow Quotes

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Christmas Quotes , Forgiveness Quotes

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Cities Quotes , Reflecting Upon Quotes

She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Eye Quotes , Thoughtful Quotes

the sight of me is good for sore eyes

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Eye Quotes , Sight Quotes

Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Time Quotes , Twenties Quotes

Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Suffering Quotes , Income Quotes