Vogliamo ora congedarci dal nostro vecchio amico in uno di quei rari momenti di felicità perfetta, dei quali, a ben saperli cercare, qualcuno di trova sempre che valga ad allineare la nostra transitoria esistenza terrena. Esistono sulla terra le ombre nere, ma per contrasto le zone luminose appaiono ancora più chiare.
Charles Dickens
Related La prima [canzone] tradotta in italiano con il titolo "Lo Straniero" rappresenta in fondo la condizi... DIEGO MARANI Milizia d'abisso perduta che vedi le navi dal basso come sagome nere di foglie, dimmi, in quelle omb... MICHELE MARI Perché, se esistono gli angeli, a nessuno di loro spetta il compito di impedire che sulla terra avv... CHRISTINE LAVANT Sarà perché la sera fa un po' freddo ma le parole che scambio con te mi scaldano il cuore. Ti sent... NAOSHI ARAKAWA Ho sceso, dandoti il braccio, almeno un milione di scale e ora che non ci sei è il vuoto ad og... EUGENIO MONTALE Le parole sopravvivono ai sistemi perchè vivono di loro stesse: sono fuochi di memoria, segnali di ... SALVATORE NATOLI Tu, così abituata a spostarti un attimo prima del tocco delle mani di qualcuno, tu così brava ad a... MASSIMO BISOTTI Leggendo non cerchiamo idee nuove, ma pensieri già da noi pensati, che acquistano sulla pagina un s... CESARE PAVESE Magari qualcosa, una moneta che cade, un piccolo braccialetto che si impiglia alla maglia di qualcun... CLAUDIA PINTUS La vigilia di Natale, Harry andò a letto pregustando le leccornie e i divertimenti dell'indomani, m... J.K. ROWLING Penso che siamo sempre alla caccia di qualcosa di nascosto o di solo potenziale o ipotetico, di cui ... ITALO CALVINO ”(…) spesso sto davanti a me stesso come davanti a un estraneo, quando in ore tranquille un e... ERIC MARIA REMARQUE Era come se avessi tremato per tutta la vita, a causa di una cronica corrente sotterranea di paura. ... PHILIP K. DICK Soffrirai profondamente, fratello mio, quando scoprirai quanti nostri simili sono contagiati dall'od... JOëL DICKER L'amore è una faccenda intima strana e piena di contraddizioni, visto che non di rado amiamo qualcu... AMOS OZ Poi è andata com'è andata. É andata come sappiamo. Sono finite le autoriduzioni, le lotte armate,... DIEGO DE SILVA Non lo capiva nessuno che sono le parole che sono contrarie alla vita, ti nascono in testa, te le co... VIOLA DI GRADO Per chi cade nella colpa, signore, il responsabile di tutte le colpe che seguono, non è sempre chi,... LUIGI PIRANDELLO [...] la schiavitù non è altro che il profitto di pochi del lavoro della massa. Perché la schiavi... LEO TOLSTOY «Improvvisamente ho capito che non c'è nessuna persona giusta. Non esiste né in terra né in ciel... SáNDOR MáRAI Cara Emmi, nella parte più interna della mia mano sinistra, suppergiù al centro,. 04/10/2012 ... DANIEL GLATTAUER La “Crisi Esistenziale” di chi ama l’amore e ha il coraggio di amare. Nell’epoca ... SAVIO DE MARTINO «Io voglio amarti di più» disse lei lentamente, timorosa di continuare. Si irrigidì e si scostò... JOSEPHINE ANGELINI Molti preferiscono tacere quando la vita fa più male, spesso le parole sono solo pietre inerti, ves... STEFANSSON JON KALMAN «Devi vedere i colori di questa città» mi disse mentre già scendevamo la scalinata. «Lond... ANNABELLE BLUE Non so se avrò tempo di scrivere altre lettere, perché forse sarò troppo impegnato a cercare a pa... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Il suicidio è così contrario a tanti nostri istinti e impulsi programmati che nessuno sano di ment... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Secondo gli stereotipi comuni, la grafica si occupa, in maniera artistica e creativa, di pubblicità... RICCARDO FALCINELLI Vorrei, per essere proprio tranquillo, che tu non ti spaventassi o ti turbassi troppo qualunque cond... ANTONIO GRAMSCI Poi si voltò verso di me, per farmi vedere com'era arrabbiata, e che quella rabbia era per me. Stav... KURT VONNEGUT In genere si crede che le donne siano molto quiete: le donne invece provano gli stessi sentimenti de... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Oggi penso talvolta che il vicino dell’Elefante poteva essere il futuro ufficiale della Gestapo ch... CZESłAW MIłOSZ E c'era davvero qualcosa che si avvicinava dal vialetto, in direzione della casa. Lo vedevo dal bino... NEIL GAIMAN Gridavamo siamo angeli, possiamo lanciarci senza distruggerci, abbiamo le ali nei muscoli, siamo spa... ISABELLA SANTACROCE Quando la stanchezza della corsa mi faceva cadere sulle pietre credevo di essere lontano da quell'or... MARIO RIGONI STERN Con il termine Personal Branding si definisce il processo di creazione e gestione del proprio Brand,... TOMMASO SORCHIOTTI Amiamo i mondi di fantasia perché il mondo in cui viviamo non ci soddisfa completamente. Troviamo c... ALESSIA ESSE Le etichette possono essere riduttive. A volte bisogna smettere di pensare a genere e orientamento e... JAY NORTHCOTE «Ho passato tutta la vita a far finta di essere qualcuno che non ero, simulando e nascondendo i mie... RACHEL HAWKINS Josephine è uno e molti. È fatta di respiri, ricordi, paure. Sogni, anche. Il suo nome è sconosci... MONICA SERRA Forse sapevano, un po' meglio degli altri, decifrare, o magari suscitare, questi segni favorevoli. L... GEORGES PEREC Ogni oggetto in noi suol trasformarsi secondo le immagini ch’esso evoca e aggruppa, per così dire... LUIGI PIRANDELLO Siamo o non siamo su un’invisibile trottolina, cui fa da ferza un fil di sole, su un granellino di... LUIGI PIRANDELLO Ovviamente non si ha il diritto di dar da mangiare a Pop Corn, visto che si trova qui per dimagrire.... ÉRIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT Era davvero uno strano spettacolo guardare quella personcina seduta, i cui piedi non arrivavano a te... ROALD DAHL La Cadillac Eldorado Brougham del 1957 era l'incarnazione perfetta dell'esibizionismo, tra le macchi... CHRISTOPHER MOORE Ombrosa non c’è più. Guardando il cielo sgombro, mi domando se è davvero esistita. Quel frastag... ITALO CALVINO Tutti e due pensavano ai giovani – i loro fratelli, i loro amici – le cui ossa erano in decompos... IRèNE NéMIROVSKY Cosa farei senza libri? Ne ho la casa piena, eppure non mi bastano mai. Vorrei avere una giornata di... DACIA MARAINI Ciononostante, vi fu uno spazio di un paio di secondi durante i quali l'espressione dei suoi occhi a... GEORGE ORWELL Mio papà mi diceva che quando ti innamori per la prima volta, la tua vita cambia per sempre, e per ... NICHOLAS SPARKS Entrambi respirarono un po' di quell'affetto che ancora resisteva tra di loro, diluito lungo ce... PAOLO GIORDANO Il corpo è la casa del tempo, dentro di lui muoiono gli anni, e con loro noi stessi. Amavo davvero ... ISABELLA SANTACROCE Fa parte della nostra natura biologica innamorarci, e di solito lo facciamo persino con la persona p... SEMIR ZEKI Tutti indossiamo una maschera, per alcuni è il trucco, per altri il sorriso, le mogl... ATTICUS POETRY Lui continua a scusarsi e a elencarmi la sua lista di problemi, senza rendersi conto che il vero pro... SARA DARDIKH Passando fra gli insorti che si scostavano con religioso rispetto, [papà Mabeuf] continuò dritto v... VICTOR HUGO «La gente muore, questo è un dato di fatto» diceva la mamma. «Ma il modo in cui perdiamo le cose... DONNA TARTT Be’... – disse lei, rigirandosi compiaciuta sulla schiena. – Mi piace mangiare roba buona, bis... RAYMOND CARVER Noi siamo cinque fratelli. Abitiamo in città diverse, alcuni di noi stanno all'estero: e non ci scr... NATALIA GINZBURG Nihal seppe che quella notte sarebbe diventata un guerriero. Si sciolse la lunga treccia blu, c... LICIA TROISI Non puoi ascoltare una poesia senza che questa ti trasformi" mi disse. "L'ascoltarono e li colonizz�... NEIL GAIMAN La vendetta, caro signore, la vendetta, la quale, èur essendo un peccato da gentiluomo come il vino... WALTER SCOTT La vendetta, caro signore, la vendetta, la quale, pur essendo un peccato da gentiluomo come il vino,... WALTER SCOTT Oh, dio mio, se fossi un angelo del Signore segnerei con una croce le porte di casa dei miei figli, ... MORDECAI RICHLER Amare è solo una forma di "ri-conoscimento", nella vita riconosciamo ciò che abbiamo già letto, o... ALESSANDRO D'AVENIA Devia la mia mano, quando tento una carezza sulla sua guancia arrossata. «Poche regole, Allison.» ... GIOVANNA ROMA «Non tutte le parole sono precipitate al suolo» disse Lucio, trovando infine il coraggio di guarda... ROBERTO BOMMARITO «Proprio un elfo snob doveva toccarmi in sorte?» le rispose divertito. «Allora, non mi rimane alt... VIVIANA GIORGI PIL; la notizia è sempre spezzata in 3 parti. I° 1/3 Aumento dei consumi famigliari. II�... SILVANO ENZO Non chiamai Marion. Provai un senso di solitudine, in mancanza di parole migliori, ma in effetti è ... DON DELILLO Quando si strappano tutte le fibre della civiltà è un lavoro lento quello di ricucirle insieme. Ve... CHRISTOPHER MORLEY La felicità la si può trovare anche negli attimi più tenebrosi... basta solo ricordarsi di accend... J.K. ROWLING Le cose, una volta pensate, che bisogno c'è di dirle? NICCOLò AMMANITI Fino a quando continueremo a porre sempre questa nostra eterna domanda: di chi è la colpa? Vostra, ... SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH i montanari, moralmente più puri, sono fisicamente più robusti e «triplicano» le consonanti, la ... ANTONIO GRAMSCI Tutto quello a cui riuscivo a pensare era che gli stavo tenendo la mano. Lo stavo toccando. E s... N.R. WALKER Girandosi in fretta Abbie sentì qualcosa muoversi dentro di lei di fronte al calore del sorriso che... FREDA LIGHTFOOT La mente gli scivolò nel mondo labirintico del bipensiero. Sapere e non sapere; credere ferma... GEORGE ORWELL Credevo che per Barney esistessi solo tu. Almeno questo è quello che dicono tutti. Senti, ambasciat... MORDECAI RICHLER Non si pone come regola, non si prescrive di essere casti; la castità è di per sé un ideale, o a ... LEO TOLSTOY Una spada sarà inutile nelle mani di qualcuno che non si sforza di lottare NICHIREN DAISHONIN Quasi avesse tenuto una breve rappresentazione teatrale, l'avvocato si mette una mano sul cuore e si... JENNY ERPENBECK Le imprese più ardite vanno vissute con l'animo più semplice. (Cosimo Piovasco Barone di Rondò) ITALO CALVINO Tumad aveva il comando della scorta, come accadeva la maggior parte dei giorni in cui Bashere non av... ROBERT JORDAN - Nulla è eterno, Balbulus. E che cosa c'è di meglio, per le parole, che essere cantate in giro? S... CORNELIA FUNKE La gente non sapeva ancora bene come assestarsi di nuovo in una vita normale: le famiglie erano anco... LUIGI MENEGHELLO Da bambino amavo ciò che si vede, da adolescente quello che si sente: da uomo, non amo più nulla.<... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT La prossima volta è il tuo turno con la sedia" disse Ottobre. "Lo so" mormorò Novembre. Era p... NEIL GAIMAN - Fanciulla, non so se sei una dea o una mortale, se sei una dea certo sei Artemide con le tue ancel... JEAN-PIERRE VERNANT Bisbigliò: «Perché sei qui, Layla?». «Sono qui... sono qui perché è qui che sono felice, qui ... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Non posso più ascoltare tacendo. Devo parlarvi con i mezzi che ho a disposizione. Voi mi trafiggete... JANE AUSTEN Detesto l’ardire, l’ardire che appartiene all’arrogante e all’insensibile, ma amo l’audaci... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Guai a coloro, dissi, che si servono dell'influenza che hanno su di un cuore per rapirgli le semplic... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Mi ero troppo affezionato a te" spiegò Silente con semplicità. "Tenevo più alla tua felicità che... J.K. ROWLING ... quando un cristiano sente il desiderio di prendere un caffè, non è perché vuole bere un caff�... LUCIANO DE CRESCENZO ...notai che le armature di ferro di plaza Costituciòn avevno cambiato non so quale pubblicità di ... JORGE LUIS BORGES E la gente ride di me perché uso parole grosse. Ma se si hanno in testa idee grosse, bisogna usare ... L.M. MONTGOMERY ...Quando Isabelle alzò lo sguardo ebbe l’impressione che il cuore le si fermasse. Stava risalend... MARTA SAVARINO Sono poche le persone che io amo per davvero e ancora meno quelle delle quali io penso bene. Più co... JANE AUSTEN
More Charles Dickens
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. CHARLES DICKENS Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entir... CHARLES DICKENS If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. CHARLES DICKENS It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in... CHARLES DICKENS The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can... CHARLES DICKENS There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. CHARLES DICKENS Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee... CHARLES DICKENS There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. CHARLES DICKENS There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. CHARLES DICKENS I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see w... CHARLES DICKENS Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of w... CHARLES DICKENS There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. CHARLES DICKENS Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tear... CHARLES DICKENS You have been the last dream of my soul. CHARLES DICKENS I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. CHARLES DICKENS Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happ... CHARLES DICKENS Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly. CHARLES DICKENS The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. CHARLES DICKENS Alas ! How few of Nature's faces are left alone to gladden us with their beauty ! The cares, and sor... CHARLES DICKENS What do you mean, Phib?" asked Miss Squeers, looking in her own little glass, where, like most of us... CHARLES DICKENS Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Freque... CHARLES DICKENS When found, make a note of. CHARLES DICKENS When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bod... CHARLES DICKENS Its very strange, said Mr. Dick that I never can get that quite right; I never can make that perfect... CHARLES DICKENS A prison taint was on everything there. The imprisoned air, the imprisoned light, the imprisoned dam... CHARLES DICKENS God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all. CHARLES DICKENS If the law supposes that, said Mr. Bumble, the law is a assa idiot. If thats the eye of the law, the... CHARLES DICKENS What is the odds so long as the fire of souls is kindled at the
taper of conwiviality, and the wing... CHARLES DICKENS Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship;
and pass the rosy wine. CHARLES DICKENS What greater gift than the love of a cat. CHARLES DICKENS Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or bric... CHARLES DICKENS To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips... CHARLES DICKENS [She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as... CHARLES DICKENS It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm o... CHARLES DICKENS Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart. CHARLES DICKENS The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to con... CHARLES DICKENS There were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal ... CHARLES DICKENS Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty... CHARLES DICKENS In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should... CHARLES DICKENS I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against... CHARLES DICKENS Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart... CHARLES DICKENS No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. CHARLES DICKENS You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?" "I wear the chain I forged in life,"... CHARLES DICKENS We need never be ashamed of our tears. CHARLES DICKENS Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of eart... CHARLES DICKENS After musing for some minutes, the old gentleman walked, with the same meditative face, into a back ... CHARLES DICKENS Lord, keep my memory green. CHARLES DICKENS I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to ment... CHARLES DICKENS When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now... CHARLES DICKENS It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must b... CHARLES DICKENS The pure, the bright, The beautiful that stirred our hearts in youth, The impulses to wordles... CHARLES DICKENS Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted dow... CHARLES DICKENS To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through ... CHARLES DICKENS The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear br... CHARLES DICKENS Philosophers are only men in armor after all. CHARLES DICKENS Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; i... CHARLES DICKENS A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper -- a phrase which being interpreted signifies ... CHARLES DICKENS If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stag... CHARLES DICKENS Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks. CHARLES DICKENS I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfu... CHARLES DICKENS Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. CHARLES DICKENS I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many i... CHARLES DICKENS Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encour... CHARLES DICKENS I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't tru... CHARLES DICKENS The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be... CHARLES DICKENS I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys. CHARLES DICKENS Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares an... CHARLES DICKENS Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not d... CHARLES DICKENS Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays... CHARLES DICKENS Minerva House was a finishing establishment for young ladies, where some twenty girls of the ages fr... CHARLES DICKENS He would make a lovely corpse. CHARLES DICKENS Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading... CHARLES DICKENS It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. CHARLES DICKENS Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the ... CHARLES DICKENS Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes of whic... CHARLES DICKENS The law is sic a ass - a idiot. CHARLES DICKENS Here's the rule for bargains: Do other men, for they would do you. That's the true business precept. CHARLES DICKENS A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud... CHARLES DICKENS After musing for some minutes, the old gentleman walked, with the same meditative face, into a back ... CHARLES DICKENS Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs. CHARLES DICKENS A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secre... CHARLES DICKENS It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. CHARLES DICKENS How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and ... CHARLES DICKENS Take example by your father, my boy, and be very careful of vidders all your life, specially if they... CHARLES DICKENS We know, Mr. Weller -- we, who are men of the world -- that a good uniform must work its way with th... CHARLES DICKENS Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it,... CHARLES DICKENS There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated. CHARLES DICKENS My other piece of advice, Copperfield, said Mr. Micawber, you know. Annual income twenty pounds, ann... CHARLES DICKENS With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. CHARLES DICKENS There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast. CHARLES DICKENS They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet ... CHARLES DICKENS I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tom... CHARLES DICKENS The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better. CHARLES DICKENS I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together. CHARLES DICKENS . . . although a skilful flatterer is a most delightful companion, if you can keep him all to yourse... CHARLES DICKENS Now, what I want is, facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in ... CHARLES DICKENS He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two. CHARLES DICKENS A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not ... CHARLES DICKENS It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the... CHARLES DICKENS Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature . CHARLES DICKENS A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person... CHARLES DICKENS There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. CHARLES DICKENS I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, wi... CHARLES DICKENS Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. CHARLES DICKENS This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in. CHARLES DICKENS Accidents will occur in the best regulated families. CHARLES DICKENS A person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay. CHARLES DICKENS Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the
copper. A smell like a washing-day! Th... CHARLES DICKENS Circumstances beyond my individual control. CHARLES DICKENS A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world! CHARLES DICKENS God bless us every one. CHARLES DICKENS Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random
digits is, of course, in a state of s... CHARLES DICKENS "If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is an ass, a
idiot." CHARLES DICKENS I never will desert Mr. Micawber. CHARLES DICKENS 'Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be. CHARLES DICKENS I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going . . . let the
other be where he may. CHARLES DICKENS If you don't like the weather, wait a minute CHARLES DICKENS Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encou... CHARLES DICKENS If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich
Fair is--a periodical breaking out, ... CHARLES DICKENS The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in
our actions. Our inner balance a... CHARLES DICKENS Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of ... CHARLES DICKENS A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight ... CHARLES DICKENS Which fiddle-strings is weakness to expredge my nerves this night! CHARLES DICKENS Horatio looked handsomely miserable, like Hamlet slipping on a
piece of orange-peel. CHARLES DICKENS A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a
sheet of paper. CHARLES DICKENS There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear
to them except in the form of bread... CHARLES DICKENS The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral
relativism has set in so deeply that th... CHARLES DICKENS Morality is of the highest importance--but for us, not for God. CHARLES DICKENS Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral
standards and values above the dis... CHARLES DICKENS The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it. CHARLES DICKENS The dodgerest of all the dodgers. CHARLES DICKENS It's a wery remarkable circumstance, sir," said Sam, "that
poverty and oysters always seem to go to... CHARLES DICKENS Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to
swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick... CHARLES DICKENS It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I ... CHARLES DICKENS I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of
tears, and a declaration that nothi... CHARLES DICKENS Jobling, there are chords in the human mind. CHARLES DICKENS In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doi... CHARLES DICKENS Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that ... CHARLES DICKENS A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secre... CHARLES DICKENS "There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, ". . . in the human heart
that had better not be wibrated.... CHARLES DICKENS Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last CHARLES DICKENS Man blames fate for other accidents, but feels personally responsible when he makes a hole in one CHARLES DICKENS Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families. CHARLES DICKENS Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. CHARLES DICKENS It was all Mrs. Bumble. She would do it," urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain... CHARLES DICKENS Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge... CHARLES DICKENS Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have d... CHARLES DICKENS Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the o... CHARLES DICKENS I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, wi... CHARLES DICKENS Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! CHARLES DICKENS There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. CHARLES DICKENS I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. CHARLES DICKENS The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. CHARLES DICKENS The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. CHARLES DICKENS Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. CHARLES DICKENS Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. CHARLES DICKENS Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew. CHARLES DICKENS We forge the chains we wear in life. CHARLES DICKENS 'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby. CHARLES DICKENS It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry ... CHARLES DICKENS The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. CHARLES DICKENS Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, ... CHARLES DICKENS [Peggotty] gave me one piece of intelligence which affected me very much, namely, that there had bee... CHARLES DICKENS In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothi... CHARLES DICKENS Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices,... CHARLES DICKENS The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider noth... CHARLES DICKENS Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeli... CHARLES DICKENS Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. CHARLES DICKENS Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. CHARLES DICKENS I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't... CHARLES DICKENS Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from t... CHARLES DICKENS He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely
considered him a humbug in a Pick... CHARLES DICKENS The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply becau... CHARLES DICKENS And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but... CHARLES DICKENS I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me. CHARLES DICKENS Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, le... CHARLES DICKENS That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds. CHARLES DICKENS The next time you go out to a smoking party, young feller, fill
your pipe with that 'ere reflection... CHARLES DICKENS Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feeli... CHARLES DICKENS He had been educated in no habits of application and concentration. The system which had addressed h... CHARLES DICKENS Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade. CHARLES DICKENS She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good. CHARLES DICKENS There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I ... CHARLES DICKENS "And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison
in a prison." CHARLES DICKENS Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answer... CHARLES DICKENS Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anyb... CHARLES DICKENS God bless us, every one! CHARLES DICKENS from the days when it was always summer in Eden,to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen lat... CHARLES DICKENS A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man... CHARLES DICKENS It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foo... CHARLES DICKENS Bah," said Scrooge, "Humbug. CHARLES DICKENS Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his ta... CHARLES DICKENS There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less exc... CHARLES DICKENS Some credit in being jolly. CHARLES DICKENS It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I ... CHARLES DICKENS Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. CHARLES DICKENS Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges i... CHARLES DICKENS If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers. CHARLES DICKENS Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green,
That creepeth o'er ruins old!
Of right choice food are hi... CHARLES DICKENS Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger." CHARLES DICKENS