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Then I'm sorry to say, I've eat your pie.

Then I'm sorry to say, I've eat your pie.

Charles Dickens
Sorry, Pie, I'm Sorry
Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.34, The Planet

I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.

Charles Dickens
Health, Eye, Noses
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.14344, Delphi Classics

[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.

Charles Dickens
Night, Air, Sky
Charles Dickens (1865). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.119

There lives at least one being who can never change-one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your happiness-who lives but in your eyes-who breathes but in your smiles-who bears the heavy burden of life itself only for you.

Charles Dickens
Love, Eye, Burdens Of Life
Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.61

"O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and me."

Charles Dickens
Words Of Wisdom, Feelings, Comfort
CHARLES DICKENS (1867). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.501

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Charles Dickens
Life, Success, Men

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

Charles Dickens
Sorrow, Abstinence, Remains
"The Mill on the Floss". Book by Charles Dickens, 1860.

You are hard at work madam ," said the man near her. Yes," Answered Madam Defarge ; " I have a good deal to do." What do you make, Madam ?" Many things." For instance ---" For instance," returned Madam Defarge , composedly , Shrouds." The man moved a little further away, as soon as he could, feeling it mightily close and oppressive .

Charles Dickens
Men, Feelings, Littles

Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog!

Charles Dickens
Lying, Views, Dying
Charles Dickens (2016). “The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.169, Pan Macmillan

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

Charles Dickens
Caring, Clouds, Light
Charles Dickens (2015). “British Classics: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)”, p.125, The Planet

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

Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Strange, Melancholy
Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.52, The Planet

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

Charles Dickens
Passion, Hunting, Breasts
Oliver Twist ch. 10 (1838)

the sight of me is good for sore eyes

Charles Dickens
Eye, Sight, Sore Eyes
Charles Dickens (2012). “David Copperfield”, p.347, Courier Corporation

... The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Eye, Shining
Charles Dickens (1843). “The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.71

When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.

Charles Dickens
Thinking, Words Of Wisdom, Papa
Charles Dickens, Peter Preston (1998). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Stories”, p.388, Wordsworth Editions

No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

Charles Dickens
Expectations, Woods, Grain
Charles Dickens (1861). “Great Expectations”, p.248

There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.

Charles Dickens
Taken, Connections, Physiognomy
Charles Dickens (1861). “The Lamplighter's Story; Hunted Down; the Detective Police; and Other Nouvellettes”, p.21

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 parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.

Charles Dickens
Party, Mean, Men
Bleak House ch. 1 (1853)

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.

Charles Dickens
Art, Children, Natural

I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!

Charles Dickens
New Year, School, Angel
Charles Dickens (2013). “Dickens' Christmas Spirits: A Christmas Carol and Other Tales”, p.91, Courier Corporation

Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.

Charles Dickens
Sports, Dream, Night
Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.91

Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.

Charles Dickens
Men, Innocent Man, Words Of Wisdom
CHARLES DICKENS (1871). “THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK, AND SKETCHES BY "BOZ".”, p.122

I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.

Charles Dickens
Mother, Children, Father

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

Charles Dickens
Would Be, Gone, Way
Charles Dickens (1872). “Our Mutual Friend”

Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life.

Charles Dickens
Drinking, Wine, Champagne
"Household Words: A Weekly Journal".

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