His gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from him. Many of us would, if we could but none of us so much as know our letters in the stars yet - or seem likely to do it, in this state of existence - and few languages can be read until their alphabets are mastered.
More Quotes from Charles Dickens:
Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.Charles Dickens
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Charles Dickens
I am afeered that werges on the poetical, Sammy.
Charles Dickens
There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands.
Charles Dickens
We didn't find that it London come up to its likeness in the red bills - it is there drawd too architectooralooral.
Charles Dickens
A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement the light was all withdrawn the shining church turned cold and dark the stream forgot to smile the birds were silent and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.
Charles Dickens
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Language QuotesBased on Keywords: alphabets
'Early stages' is when the cancer is completely contained within the prostate. If it is detected when the cancer is entirely in the gland, the chance for full recovery is at its highest.
Len Dawson
It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have to go to work with a purpose. I learned from the experience and then moved on.
Matthew Ashford
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
Woodrow Wilson