“Hunger was shred into atomics in every farthing porringer of husky chips of potato, fried with some reluctant drops of oil.”Charles Dickens
“I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.”Charles Dickens
“Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.”Charles Dickens
“The wine-shops breed, in a physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.”Charles Dickens
“Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then.”Charles Dickens
“What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, gentle, beautiful, pleasant, serene, and joyful? O yes!”Charles Dickens
“I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beaten out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so, God bless you, dear old Pip, old chap — God bless you!”Charles Dickens
“Good never comes of such evil; a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.”Charles Dickens
“I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people who are not easy in their graves keep the day they died upon.”Charles Dickens
“Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.”Charles Dickens
“I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes.”Charles Dickens
“And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!”Charles Dickens
“A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down; but I wish you to know that you inspired it.”Charles Dickens
“Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.”Charles Dickens
“The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.”Charles Dickens
“I admire machinery as much as any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for us. But it will never be a substitute for the face of a man, with his soul in it, encouraging another man to be brave and true.”Charles Dickens
“I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt; and, of course, if it ceased to beat I should cease to be. But you know what I mean. I have no softness there — no sympathy, sentiment, nonsense.”Charles Dickens
“External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him; no wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.”Charles Dickens
“Hallo! A great deal of steam! The pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.”Charles Dickens
““Especially,” said Mr. Pumblechook, “be grateful, boy, to those who brought you up by hand.” Mrs. Hubble shook her head and, contemplating me with a mournful presentiment that I should come to no good, asked, “Why is it that the young are never grateful?” The moral mystery proved too much for the company until Mr. Hubble tersely solved it by saying, “Naturally vicious.” Everybody then murmured “True!” and looked at me in a particularly unpleasant and personal manner.”Charles Dickens
“Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a people so entirely destitute of humor, vivacity, or the capacity for enjoyment.”Charles Dickens
“The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do, I believe, when we go back to them.”Charles Dickens
