I had cherished a profound conviction that her bringing me up by hand, gave her no right to bring me up by jerks.
Charles Dickens-Why don't you cry again, you little wretch?
-Because I'll never cry for you again.
Shirking and sharking, in all their many varieties, have been sown broadcast by the ill-fated cause; and even those who have contemplated its history from the outermost circle of such evil, have been insensibly tempted into a loose way of letting bad things alone to take their own bad course, and a loose belief that if the world go wrong, it was, in some offhand manner, never meant to go right.
Charles DickensStichwörter: apathy self-interest
We think the feelings that are very serious in a man quite comical in a boy.
Charles DickensSome people are nobody's enemies but their own, yer know.
Charles DickensStichwörter: enemies self-love
You are good enough to say so, as a fashion of speech; but, I don’t mean any fashion of speech. Indeed, when I say I wish we might be friends, I scarcely mean quite that, either.
Charles DickensAs all partings foreshadow the great final one, - so, empty rooms, bereft of a familiar presence, mournfully whisper what your room and what mine must one day be.
Charles DickensIt opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper, said Mr. Bumble. So cry away.
Charles DickensStichwörter: elly-kleinman-americare
I really am a little afraid, my dear,” hinted the cherub meekly, “that you are not enjoying yourself?”
“On the contrary,” returned Mrs. Wilfer, “quite so. Why should I not?”
“I thought, my dear, that perhaps your face might—“
“My face might be a martyrdom, but what would that import, or who should know it, if I smiled?”
And she did smile; manifestly freezing the blood of Mr. George Sampson by so doing. For that young gentleman, catching her smiling eye, was so very much appalled by its expression as to cast about in his thoughts concerning what he had done to bring it down upon himself.
Stichwörter: humorous
I shall always tell you everything.
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