1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

En zo, bij dag en bij nacht, onder zon en sterrenlicht, over heuvelen en door eenzame vlakten, over land en zee trekkend, gaande en komende zoals het lot wil, steeds andere mensen ontmoetend, zo trekken wij, rusteloze reizigers door de pelgrimstocht die het leven heet.

Some people likened him to a direction-post, which is always telling the way to a place, and never goes there; but these were his enemies, the shadows cast by his brightness; that was all.

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.

Fermati, tu che leggi, e medita per un momento sulla lunga catena di bronzo o d'oro, di spine o di fiori, che mai ti avrebbe soggiogato se in un solo memorabile giorno non si fosse formato e chiuso il primo anello.

Her insandan, içinde taşıdığı ruhun hemcinsleri arasında yürüyüp ilerlemesi, dünyanın dört bir yanını dolaşmasi beklenir; eğer o ruh hayatta yol almazsa bunu ölümden sonra yapmakla yükümlüdür. Dünyada dolanıp durmaya, vay anam vay, artık paylaşamayacağı ama dünyadan ayrılmamışken paylaşıp mutluluğa dönüştürebileceği şeyleri görmeye mahkum olur!

But, according to the success with which you put this and that together, you get a woman and a fish apart, or a Mermaid in combination.

You see,' returned Mr Boffin, with a confidential sense of dignity, 'as to my literary man's duties, they're clear. Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry.

It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows, listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travelers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning.

I always loved that boy as if he'd been my-- my-- my own grandfather.