What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!
Charles Dickens... The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.
Charles DickensVirtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.
Charles DickensMr. Bazzard's father, being a Norfolk farmer, would have furiously laid about him with a flail, a pitch-fork, and every agricultural implement available for assaulting purposes, on the slightest hint of his son's having written a play.
Charles DickensI want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.
Charles DickensDombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new.
Charles Dickens