Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and disto….

She writhes under her life. A woman more angry, passionate, reckless, and revengeful never lived..

The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense..

There might be some credit in being jolly..

We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts of so much omitted, and so l….

It is one of those problems of human nature, which may be noted down, but not solved; - although Ralph felt no remorse at that moment for his conduct….

I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to beat, I would cease to be. But you know what I mean. I h….

An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men..

I'd lay down my life for her - Mas'r Davy - Oh! most content and cheerful! She's more to me - gent'lmen - than - she's all to me that ever I can want….

You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in ….

It was a dagger in the haughty father's heart, an arrow in his brain, to see how the flesh and blood he could not disown clung to this obscure strang….

I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter sub….

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me..

She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good..

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!.

Man is but mortal: and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend. Mr. Pickwick gazed through his spectacles for an instant on the adv….

He appeared to enjoy beyond everything the sound of his own voice. I couldn't wonder at that, for it was mellow and full and gave great importance to….

"It's an old habit of mine, Wal'r," said the Captain, "any time these fifty year. When you see Ned Cuttle bite his nails, Wal'r, then you may know th….

A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!.

and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces..

I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it..