Charles Dickens, Bleak House Quotes

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

We went our several ways, " said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped.

A word in earnest is as good as a speech

Lady Dedlock is always the same exhausted deity, surrounded by worshippers, and terribly liable to be bored to death, even while presiding at her own shrine.