Emotions and Feelings

‘He calls the knaves, Jacks, this boy,’ said Estella with disdain, before our first game was out.

What larks.

It was as true … as taxes is. And nothing’s truer than them.

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families.

We are so very ’umble.

I only ask for information.

Barkis is willin’.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.

I am a lone lorn creetur … and everythink goes contrairy with me.

I am a lone lorn creetur … and everythink goes contrairy with me.

‘God bless us every one!’ said Tiny Tim.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium!

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium!

Murder considered as one of the fine arts.

A duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

He told me … that mine was the middle state, or what might be called the upper station of low life, which he had found by long experience was the best state in the world, the most suited to human happiness.

What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horridly cruel works of nature!

… Nessun maggior dolore,

listen: there’s a hell

The red badge of courage.

There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.