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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 that Ned Cuttle's aground.

"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 that Ned Cuttle's aground."

Charles Dickens
Funny, Humorous, Years
Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens (in 30 Volumes, Illustrated): Dombey and Son, Vol. I”, p.219, Cosimo, Inc.

The great commander, who seemed by expression of his visage to be always on the look-out for something in the extremest distance, and to have no ocular knowledge of anything within ten miles, made no reply whatever.

Charles Dickens
Funny, Distance, Humorous
Charles Dickens (2016). “Dombey and Son”, p.336, Xist Publishing

Let me see you ride a donkey over my green again, and as sure as you have a head upon your shoulders, I'll knock your bonnet off, and tread upon it!

Charles Dickens
Funny, Humorous, Green
Charles Dickens (2016). “David Copperfield (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.159, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

He was drunk upon the average once a day, and penitent upon an equally fair calculation once a month; and when he was penitent, he was invariably in the very last stage of maudlin intoxication. He was a ragged, roving, roaring kind of fellow, with a burly form, a sharp wit, and a ready head, and could turn his hand to anything when he chose to do it.

Charles Dickens
Funny, Humorous, Average
Charles Dickens (1903). “The Works of Charles Dickens: Sketches by Boz : illustrative of every day life and everyday people. 1903”

He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together, - running, and catching, and batting, and bowling, and revelling in toil which would exhaust a galley-slave.

Charles Dickens
Funny, Running, Humorous
Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1837). “Bentley's Miscellany”, p.54, Richard Bentley]

"Next," said Mrs Wilfer with a wave of her gloves, expressive of abdication under protest from the culinary throne, "I would recommend examination of the bacon in the saucepan on the fire, and also of the potatoes by the application of a fork. Preparation of the greens will further become necessary if you persist in this unseemly demeanour."

Charles Dickens
Funny, Humorous, Fire
Charles Dickens (2017). “THE GREATEST DICKENS CLASSICS (Illustrated Edition): Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, The Life of Dickens”, p.895, e-artnow

Both Miss Lavinia and Miss Clarissa had a superstition, however, that he would have declared his passion, if he had not been cut short in his youth (at about sixty) by over-drinking his constitution, and over-doing an attempt to set it right again by swilling Bath water.

Charles Dickens
Funny, Humorous, Drinking
Charles Dickens (2016). “Charles Dickens Six Pack: Six Dickens Classics”, p.1249, Enhanced Media Publishing

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

Charles Dickens
Men, Elderly, Gentleman
Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.182

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.

Charles Dickens
Wine, Paris, Six
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].”

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 be pleasant.

Charles Dickens
Games, Two, Lawyer
Pickwick Papers ch. 20 (1837)

By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!

Charles Dickens
Men, Study, Pretense

I don't suppose there's a man going, as possesses the fondness for youth that I do. There's youth to the amount of eight hundredpound a-year, at Dotheboys Hall at this present time. I'd take sixteen hundred pound worth, if I could get 'em, and be as fond of every individual twenty pound among 'em as nothing should equal it!

Charles Dickens
Men, Years, Eight

There's a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a Angel. That young man hears the words I speak. That young man has a secret way pecooliar to himself, of getting at a boy, and at his heart, and at his liver.

Charles Dickens
Heart, Angel, Boys
Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.24

In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley.

Charles Dickens
Marley, Jacob, Partners
Charles Dickens, Neil Bartlett (2012). “A Christmas Carol”, Oberon Books

I only ask for information.

Charles Dickens
Information, Asks
David Copperfield ch. 20 (1850)

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

Charles Dickens
Boys, Yesterday, Today
Charles Dickens (1992). “Great Expectations”, p.205, Wordsworth Editions

That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they never could tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they never could endure the notion of their children laying their heads upon their pillows; in short, that there never more could be, for them or theirs, any laying of heads upon pillows at all, unless the prisoner's head was taken off.

Charles Dickens
Children, Taken, Ideas
"All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal".

What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!

Charles Dickens
Light, Opposites, People
Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.156

All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire- a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away.

Charles Dickens
Fire, Wish, Weakness
Charles Dickens (2005). “A Tale of Two Cities - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.143, Prestwick House Inc

If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

Charles Dickens
Population, Scrooge, Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.9

If you can't get to be oncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. So don't tell no more on 'em, Pip, and live well and die happy.

Charles Dickens
Uncommon, Live Well, Wells
"Tale of Two Cities".

Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.

Charles Dickens
Hands, Clothes, Care
Charles Dickens (2007). “A Tale of Two Cities”, p.21, Penguin

It is a long time,' repeated his wife; 'and when is it not a long time? Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.' 'It does not take a long time to strike a man with Lightning,' said Defarge. 'How long,' demanded madame, composedly, 'does it take to make and store the lightning? Tell me?

Charles Dickens
Men, Long, Wife
Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.150, Penguin

You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your uncle George was living much less when he's dead.

Charles Dickens
Uncles, Brain, Brass
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.6307, Delphi Classics

You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law, 'my existence would be unilluminated by a ray of hope.

Charles Dickens
Law, Rays, Would Be
Charles Dickens (1884). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.72

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