"The carrier's horse was the laziest horse in the world, I should hope, and shuffled along, with his head down, as if he liked to keep people waiting t...

and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.
~ Charles Dickens ~












and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as o...
Show More
More Charles Dickens quotes
"It was considered at the time a striking proof of virtue in the young king that he was sorry for his father's death;but, as common subjects have that ...
"The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.
"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
"It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself.
". . . such a rush immediately ensued that she with laughing face and plundered dress was borne towards it the centre of a flushed and boisterous group...
"On this matter I'm inclined to agree with the French, who gaze upon any personal dietary prohibition as bad manners.
"That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillo...
"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 arr...
"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at ...
"You are hard at work madam ," said the man near her.Yes," Answered Madam Defarge ; " I have a good deal to do."What do you make, Madam ?"Many things."...
"Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of...
". . . for not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.
"In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injus...
"My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.