Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?
("Great Expectations")
More Quotes from Charles Dickens:
I should be an affected women, if I made any pretence of being surprised by my son's inspiring such emotions; but I can't be indifferent to anyone who is so sensible on his meritsCharles Dickens
He's a going out with the tide.
Charles Dickens
Yes you are the ruin--the ruin--the ruin--of me. I have no resources in myself, I have no confidence in myself, I have no government of myself when you are near me or in my thoughts. And you are always in my thoughts now. I have never been quit of you since I first saw you. Oh, that was a wretched day for me That was a wretched, miserable day
Charles Dickens
There's light enough for what I've got to do.
Charles Dickens
I assure you she's the dearest girl.
Charles Dickens
Mr Jarndyce, and prevented his going any farther, when he had remarked that 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
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Keywords: mothsHeadlines twice the size of the events.
John Galsworthy
I made a decision that whether or not I was going to make under the national poverty level wasn't going to play a part in whether or not I was an actor. That's what I do.
Don Johnson
All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
Germaine Greer