Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The p….

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts..

You have been the last dream of my soul..

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk..

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand..

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth..

... I feel certain that his tale is true. Feeling that certainty, I befriend him. As long as that certainty shall last, I will befriend him. And if a….

I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that most ….

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with ….

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right..

Mr Jarndyce, and prevented his going any farther, when he had remarked that there were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a li….

And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he might have b….

Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy. -Miss Havisham.

I don't like that sort of school... where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged... where I have never seen among the pupils, whether….

Yet, I had nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess (which might be of less moment still), that no one can ever believe this Narrative….

When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place, like a cheese, until h….

Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfi….

I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he read, and made clamm….

The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehend….

The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and r….

He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright; but their light was of Hea….