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George Eliot: When death comes...

George Eliot: When death comes...

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

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George Eliot: No great deed...

George Eliot: No great deed...

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Jane Austen: A lady's imagination...

Jane Austen: A lady's imagination...

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a...

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Jane Austen: Human nature is...

Jane Austen: Human nature is...

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either...

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Jane Austen: Real solemn history,...

Jane Austen: Real solemn history,...

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in . . . The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences in...

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Richard Bach: You don't tell...

Richard Bach: You don't tell...

You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.

Source: In...

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Edward Dahlberg: No people require...

Edward Dahlberg: No people require...

No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always...

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Charles Dickens: In this life...

Charles Dickens: In this life...

In this life we want nothing but facts, sir; nothing but facts.

Source: 'Hard...

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Charles Dickens: Our backs is...

Charles Dickens: Our backs is...

Our backs is easy ris. We must be cracked-up, or they rises, and we snarls. We shows our teeth, I tell you, fierce....

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Charles Dickens: He had used...

Charles Dickens: He had used...

He had used the word in its Pickwickian sense.

Source: (Mr Blotton) Pickwick...

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Charles Dickens: She is come...

Charles Dickens: She is come...

She is come at last - at last - and all is gas and gaiters!

Source: (The Gentleman...

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Charles Dickens: In came a...

Charles Dickens: In came a...

In came a fiddler - and tuned like fifty stomach-aches.
In came Mrs Fezziwig, one vast substantial...

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Charles Dickens: It's over, and...

Charles Dickens: It's over, and...

It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, ven they cuts the wrong...

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Charles Dickens: Old girl,' said...

Charles Dickens: Old girl,' said...

'Old girl,' said Mr Bagnet, `give him my opinion. You know it.'

Source: Bleak...

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Charles Dickens: Can I unmoved...

Charles Dickens: Can I unmoved...

Can I unmoved see thee dying
On a log,
Expiring frog!


Source: (Mrs Leo...

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Charles Dickens: It's calm and...

Charles Dickens: It's calm and...

It's calm and - what's that word again - critical! - no - classical, that's it - it is calm and...

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Charles Dickens: I expect a...

Charles Dickens: I expect a...

I expect a judgment. Shortly.

Source: Bleak House, Ch. 3
-- Charles Dickens,...

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Charles Dickens: God bless us...

Charles Dickens: God bless us...

'God bless us every one!' said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

Source: A Christmas...

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Charles Dickens: Life is made...

Charles Dickens: Life is made...

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Mark Twain: Adam and Eve...

Mark Twain: Adam and Eve...

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

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