1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

My dear Steerforth, what is the matter?""I wish with all my soul I had been better guided!" he exclaimed. "I wish with all my soul I could guide myself better!

The day happened to be Sunday, and when I looked on the loveliness around me, and thought how it had grown and changed, and how the little wild flowers had been forming, and the voices of the birds had been strengthening, by day and by night, under the sun and under the stars, while poor I lay burning and tossing on my bed, the mere remembrance of having burned and tossed there, came like a check upon my peace.

All that is loathsome, drooping, or decayed is here.

Demon—with the highest respect for you—behold your work!

Refuge in any hiding-place from a sea too intensely blue to be looked at, and a sky of purple, set with one great flaming jewel of fire.

And thus she sat at the gate, as it were alone; looking up at the stars, and seeing the clouds pass over them in their wild flight - which was the dance at Little Dorrit's party.

has that Copperfield no tague! I would do a good deal for you, if you tell me, without lying that somebody had cut it out

The whelp went home, and went to bed. If he had had any sense of what he had done that night, and had been less of a whelp and more of a brother, he might have turned short on the road, might have gone down to the ill-smelling river that was dyed black, might have gone to bed in it for good and all, and have curtained his head for ever with its filthy waters.

[John Jarndyce] rubbed his head so constantly that not a single hair upon it ever rested in its right place