If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is..

He lived in chambers that had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, whe….

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it..

"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and ca….

Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness..

Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds poured forth their songs from t….

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine..

Fledgeby deserved Mr. Alfred Lammle's eulogium. He was the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of legs. And instinct (a word we all clearly unde….

It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many….

Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more..

"Next," said Mrs Wilfer with a wave of her gloves, expressive of abdication under protest from the culinary throne, "I would recommend examination of….

A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow, a very neat figure and rather under the middle size, never out of the way and never in it..

Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day..

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to b….

Nothing is discovered without God's intention and assistance, and I suppose every new knowledge of His works that is conceded to man to be distinctly….

Then, at the end of every hand, Miss Bolo would inquire with a dismal countenance and reproachful sigh, why Mr. Pickwick had not returned that diamon….

So, Mr. Chadband-of whom the persecutors say that it is no wonder he should go on for any length of time uttering such abominable nonsense, but that ….

Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the inventio….

Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness. ….

Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison..

My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades..