1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

Enough House', said I; 'that's a curious name, miss.' 'Yes,' she replied; 'but it meant more than it said. It meant, when it was given, that whoever had this house could want nothing else.

With a leer of mingled sweetness and slyness; with one eye on the future, one on the bride, and an arch expression in her face, partly spiritual, partly spirituous, and wholly professional and peculiar to her art; Mrs Gamp rummaged in her pocket again [...]

...and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

lights twinkled in little casements; which lights, as the casements darkened, and more stars came out, seemed to have shot up into the sky instead of having been extinguished

It is too late for that. I shall never be better than I am. I shall sink lower, and be worse.

Слух у старой леди значительно улучшился, а злополучный мистер Миллер чувствовал себя выброшенным из родной стихии, как дельфин, посаженный в караульную будку.

Провалиться мне на месте, но мне кажется, когда человек очень беден, он выбегает из дому и в регулярном отчаянии поедает устрицы.

Очень жаль, что приходится прерывать такие приятные разговоры, как сказал король, распуская парламент.

...he walked up and down through life.