I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.
There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.
No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused
Life is made of so many partings welded together
It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
He would make a lovely corpse.
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.
A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.
I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.
There was a long hard time when I kept far from me, the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth. But, since my duty has not been incompatible with the admission of...
They had an ugly look to one as prone to disgust and fear as the changes of a few hours had made me.
We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condit...
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
[W]e talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannise over them too; we are fond of having a large superfluous establishment of words to wait upon us on great occasions; we think it looks imp...
You talk very easily of hours, sir! How long do you suppose, sir, that an hour is to a man who is choking for want of air?
You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!
You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we a...
There is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you.