Charles Dickens

I resolved to tell my guardian that I doubted Orlick being the right sort of man to fill a post of trust at Miss Havisham__. __hy of course he is not the right sort of man, Pip,_ said my guardian, comfortably satisfied beforehand on the general head, __ecause the man who fills the post of trust never is the right sort of man.

Woodcourt: __iss Summerson,_ said Mr. Woodcourt, __f without obtruding myself on your confidence I may remain near you, pray let me do so.__sther: __ou are truly kind,_ I answered. __ need wish to keep no secret of my own from you; if I keep any, it is another__.__oodcourt: __ quite understand. Trust me, I will remain near you only so long as I can fully respect it.__sther: __ trust implicitly to you,_ I said, __ know and deeply feel how sacredly you keep your promise._ - pg.807

His was not a lazy trustfulness that hoped, and did no more.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection .

He went to work in this preparatory lesson, not unlike Morgiana in the Forty Thieves: looking into all the vessels ranged before him, one after another, to see what they contained. Say, good M__hoakumchild. When from thy boiling store, thou shalt fill each jar brim full by-and-by, dost thou think that thou wilt always kill outright the robber Fancy lurking within__r sometimes only maim him and distort him!

Oh, let us love our occupations,Bless the squire and his relations,Live upon our daily rations,And always know our proper stations.

Second: them poor things well out o' this, and never no more will I interfere with Mrs. Cruncher's flopping, never no more!""Whatever housekeeping arrangement that may be," said Miss Pross, striving to dry her eyes and compose herself, "I have no doubt it is best that Mrs. Cruncher should have it entirely under her own superintendence.__ my poor darlings!""I go so far as to say, miss, moreover," proceeded Mr. Cruncher, with a most alarming tendency to hold forth as from a pulpit_"and let my words be took down and took to Mrs. Cruncher through yourself__hat wot my opinions respectin' flopping has undergone a change, and that wot I only hope with all my heart as Mrs. Cruncher may be a flopping at the present time.""There, there, there! I hope she is, my dear man," cried the distracted Miss Pross, "and I hope she finds it answering her expectations.

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.

God bless us, every one!

I 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.

When I went out, light of day seemed a darker color than when I went in.

There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all interest in romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

[W]e talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannise over them too; we are fond of having a large superfluous establishment of words to wait upon us on great occasions; we think it looks important, and sounds well. As we are not particular about the meaning of our liveries on state occassions, if they be but fine and numerous enough, so, the meaning or necessity of our words is a secondary consideration, if there be but a great parade of them. And as individuals get into trouble by making too great a show of liveries, or as slaves when they are too numerous rise against their masters, so I think I could mention a nation that has got into many great difficulties, and will get into many greater, from maintaining too large a retinue of words.

A word in earnest is as good as a speech

It is the custom on the stage in all good, murderous melodramas, to present the tragic and the comic scenes in as regular alternation as the layers of red and white in a side of streaky, well-cured bacon.