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“A word in earnest is as good as a speech.” (Bleak House Quotes)
Charles Dickens
Bleak House
“And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.”
Charles Dickens
Bleak House
“As 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 Dickens
Bleak House
“But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.”
Charles Dickens
Bleak House
“Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon, and hanging in the misty clouds.”
Charles Dickens
Bleak House
“Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.”
Charles Dickens
Bleak House
“Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts.
Charles Dickens
Bleak House
“Everything that Mr Smallweed’s grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly.”
Charles Dickens
Bleak House
“I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much.”
Charles Dickens
Bleak House
“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.”
Charles Dickens
Bleak House
“The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.” (Bleak House Quotes)
Charles Dickens
Bleak House
“The universe makes rather an indifferent parent, I’m afraid.”
Charles Dickens
Bleak House
“The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us.”
Charles Dickens
Bleak House
“There is something indefinably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners of her eyes without turning her head which could be pleasantly dispensed with, especially when she is in ill humor and near knives.”
Charles Dickens
Bleak House
“There were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all.”
Charles Dickens
Bleak House
