“He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count ’em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.” ~ A Christmas Carol
Quotes
Over the whole, a young
Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and an implacable determination to be avenged. ~ The Uncommercial Traveller – Refreshments for Travellers
“I went away, dear Agnes,
“I went away, dear Agnes, loving you. I stayed away, loving you. I returned home, loving you!” ~ David Copperfield
“Your voice and music are
“Your voice and music are the same to me.” ~ The Haunted Man
So, throughout life, our worst
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. ~ Great Expectations
There is a passion FOR
There is a passion FOR hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast. ~ Oliver Twist
And thus ever by day
And thus ever by day and night, under the sun and under the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the weary plains, journeying by land and journeying by sea, coming and going so strangely, to meet and to act and react on one another, move all we restless travellers through the pilgrimage of life. ~ Little Dorrit
“But as to myself, my
“But as to myself, my guiding-star always is, ‘Get hold of portable property’.” ~ Great Expectations
“It is because I think
“It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.” ~ Oliver Twist
THERE is a country, which
THERE is a country, which I will show you when I get into maps, where the children have everything their own way. It is a most delightful country to live in. The grown-up people are obliged to obey the children, and are never allowed to sit up to supper, except on their birthdays. The children order them to make jam and jelly and marmalade, and tarts and pies and puddings, and all manner of pastry. If they say they won’t, they are put in the corner till they do. They are sometimes allowed to have some; but when they have some, they generally have powders given them afterwards. ~ Holiday Romance
