“If you should happen, by any unlikely chance, to know a man more blest in a laugh than Scrooge’s nephew, all I can say is, I should like to know him too. Introduce him to me, and I’ll cultivate his acquaintance.”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
“Man, said the Ghost, if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered what the surplus is and where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child. Oh God! to hear the insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!”Charles Dickens
“It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens the temper; so cry away.”Charles Dickens
“Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues – faith and hope.”Charles Dickens
“My hair stands on end at the cost and charges of these boys. Why was I ever a father! Why was my father ever a father!”Charles Dickens
“Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.”Charles Dickens
“He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been, in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away, by the fervour of this reproach.”Charles Dickens
“I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.”Charles Dickens
“The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.”Charles Dickens
“Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.”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
“Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within.”Charles Dickens
“Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase.”Charles Dickens
“She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir.”Charles Dickens
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”Charles Dickens
“The wind is rushing after us, the clouds are flying after us, the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but so far we are pursued by nothing else.”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
