70 Quotes About Charles-dickens

She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him.

And what's the best of all, you've been more comfortable alonger me, since I was under a dark cloud, than when the sun shone. That's best of all.

I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.

When I had lain awake a little awhile, those extraordinary voices with which silence teems, began to make themselves audible. The closet whispered, the fireplace sighed, the little washing-stand ticked, and one guitar-string played occasionally in the chest of drawers.

There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.

To do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be attained will justify.

My impression is, after many years of consideration, that there never can have been anybody in the world who played worse.