“Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language.”Charles Dickens
“Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.”Charles Dickens
“At this time of the rolling year, the specter said, I suffer most. Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode? Were there no poor homes to which its light would have conducted me?”Charles Dickens
“I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.”Charles Dickens
“The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.”Charles Dickens
“Many who serve charity seek almost as much excitement in their work as pleasure-seekers do in theirs.”Charles Dickens
“In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting.”Charles Dickens
“The change was made in me; the thing was done. Well or ill done, excusably or inexcusably, it was done.”Charles Dickens
“Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people we most despise.”Charles Dickens
“For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down.”Charles Dickens
“Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.”Charles Dickens
“The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.”Charles Dickens
“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.”Charles Dickens
“Without strong affection and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is mercy and whose great attribute is benevolence to all things that breathe, true happiness can never be attained.”Charles Dickens
“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.”Charles Dickens
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”Charles Dickens
