This is the Court of Chancery, which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire, which has its worn-out lunatic in every madhouse and its dead in every churchyard. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-11T15:14:04+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Bureauracy, Law| Read More
Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-14T08:57:00+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Bureauracy, Law| Read More
A word in earnest is as good as a speech. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-14T08:55:59+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Emotions, Truth| Read More
Fairy-land to visit, but a desert to live in. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-14T09:16:17+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Home| Read More
Jo lives—that is to say, Jo has not yet died. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-14T09:16:34+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Poverty| Read More
A black, dilapidated street, avoided by all decent people, where the crazy houses were seized upon, when their decay was far advanced, by some bold vagrants who after establishing their own possession took to letting them out in lodgings. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-14T09:17:12+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Poverty, Slums| Read More
He has no idea, poor wretch, of the spiritual destitution of a coral reef in the Pacific or what it costs to look up the precious souls among the coco-nuts and bread-fruit. The Circumlocution Office2019-09-09T21:53:55+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Foreign Aid, Philanthropy, Poverty, Religion| Read More
Through years and years, and lives and lives, everything goes on, constantly beginning over and over again, and nothing ever ends. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-14T08:33:46+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Bureauracy, Law, Time| Read More
It is said that the children of the very poor are not brought up, but dragged up. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-18T22:09:09+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Children, Poverty| Read More
She also had upon her face and arms the marks of ill usage. She had no kind of grace about her, but the grace of sympathy. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-14T08:31:18+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Domestic Violence| Read More
Your sex have such a surprising animosity against one another when you do differ. The Circumlocution Office2019-10-26T06:29:40+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Women| Read More
This, you must know, is the growlery. When I am out of humour, I come and growl here. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-14T08:34:18+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Anger, Humour| Read More
I am a School lady, I am a Visiting lady, I am a Reading lady, I am a Distributing lady; I am on the local Linen Box Committee and many general committees; and my canvassing alone is very extensive—perhaps no one’s more so. The Circumlocution Office2020-07-13T22:50:49+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Charity, Philanthropy, Virtue signalling| Read More
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. And dying thus around us every day. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-14T09:05:31+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Death, Poverty, Religion| Read More
It’s about a will and the trusts under a will—or it was once. It’s about nothing but costs now. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-12T10:33:09+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Bureauracy, Law| Read More
