“ When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place, like a cheese, until he had the full Tellson flavour and blue-mould upon… Charles Dickens
“ It was all Mrs. Bumble. She do it, urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain that his partner had left the room.That is no excuse, returned Mr. Brownlow. You were present on the occasion of… Charles Dickens
“ I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their heart… Charles Dickens
“ All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Charles Dickens
“ There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect Charles Dickens
“ It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded. Charles Dickens
“ If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this r… Charles Dickens
“ From the beginning, she had sat looking at him fixedly. As he now leaned back in his chair, and bent his deep-set eyes upon her in his turn, perhaps he might have seen one wavering moment in her, when… Charles Dickens
“ The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world. Charles Dickens
“ [Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay. Charles Dickens
“ We have had for breakfast, toasts, cakes, a yorkshire pie, a piece of beef about the size and much the shape of my portmanteau, tea, coffee, ham and eggs... Charles Dickens
