Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn't paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows - they leap in like sugary ninjas Charles Dickens More Quotes by Charles Dickens More Quotes From Charles Dickens The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them Charles Dickens streets believe children the sight of me is good for sore eyes Charles Dickens sore-eyes eye sight Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over. Charles Dickens gentleman caring thinking Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion. Charles Dickens dirt people art Come, then," returned the nephew gaily. "What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough. Charles Dickens christmas-carol rich nephew The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away. Charles Dickens great-expectations tears secret This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth! Charles Dickens wealth poverty world Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell. Charles Dickens pipers punctuation deals Nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms. Charles Dickens wrinkles laughter eye There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning Charles Dickens scrooge hallucinations believe it's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly. Charles Dickens scrooge men people Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets. Charles Dickens december pockets men You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away. Charles Dickens staying reason inspirational That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds. Charles Dickens vision cities mind I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age. Charles Dickens age young way My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. Charles Dickens christian names father Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it. Charles Dickens may opportunity men On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and the meeting will never be. Should possibilities be worse to bear than certainties? Charles Dickens pain hands years For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him. Charles Dickens twists blessing children Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself. Charles Dickens support events writing
