Quotable Quotes:

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair..."

 A Tale Of Two Cities (1859-1861)

"The freshness of her beauty was indeed gone, but its indescribable majesty and its indescribable charm remained."

Great Expectations (1860-1861)

     "The silvery mist was touched with the first rays of the moonlight and the same rays touched the tears that dropped from her eyes."

     Great Expectations (1860-1861)

     "The ground belongs to me. It is the only possession I have not relinquished."

     Great Expectations (1860-1861)

     "I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I left the forge."

     Great Expectations (1860-1861)

      "I was ungenerous and unjust; only tell him that I honored you both, because you were both so good and true."

     Great Expectations (1860-1861)

      "My first thought was one great thankfulness that I have never breathed this last baffled hope to Joe."

     Great Expectations (1860-1861)

      "I had never seen before; what I never seen before was saddened softened light of once proud eyes; what I had never felt before, was the friendly touch of once insensible hand."

     Great Expectations (1860-1861)

    "The tidings of my high fortunes having had a heavy fall had got down to my native place and its neighborhood."

     Great Expectations (1860-1861) 

    "There was no discrepancy of years between us, to remove her far from me; we were of nearly the same age, though of course the age told for more in her case than in mine."

     Great  Expectations (1860-1861)

   "It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing so irresistibly contagious as laughter."
A Christmas Carol (1843)  

    "The children of the very poor are not brought up, but dragged up."

     Bleak House (1852)                                

   "There's nothing more regular in its coming round than dinner-time, and nothing less regular in its coming round than dinner."

     The Chimes (1844)

"Now I return to this young fellow and the communication I have got to make is that he has great expectations."

Great Expectations (1860-1861)

"… it is not my desire to warm the feelings of any person with whom I am connected in my family  bonds. I may be a hypocrite, but I am not a brute”

 Martin Chuzzlewit

"…skewered trough n through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape."

David Copper field (1849-1850)

"take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strict conscientious in emptying ones glass, as to turn its bottom upwards with the rim one's nose”

Great Expectations (1860-1861)

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