She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I don’t know what she was—anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink; no looking down, or looking back; I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her. The Circumlocution Office2022-02-14T00:17:36+00:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Attraction, Love| Read More
It’s in vain, Trot, to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. The Circumlocution Office2022-02-07T19:42:21+00:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Memory| Read More
The clash and glare of sundry fiery Works upon the river-side, arose by night to disturb everything except the heavy and unbroken smoke that poured out of their chimneys. The Circumlocution Office2019-12-03T10:52:20+00:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Appearance (Places), Industry, London| Read More
The neighbourhood was a dreary one at that time; as oppressive, sad, and solitary by night, as any about London. The Circumlocution Office2019-12-03T10:56:07+00:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Appearance (Places), London| Read More
A pair of such very stiff trousers that they would have stood quite as well alone, without any legs in them. The Circumlocution Office2019-12-03T10:57:53+00:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Appearance (Person), Clothes, Trousers| Read More
Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like a trussed fowl: skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape. The Circumlocution Office2020-07-13T22:13:44+01:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Bureauracy, Parliament, Red Tape| Read More
I have been often flogged myself. The Circumlocution Office2019-01-07T17:14:39+00:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Punishment| Read More
If you’re an eel, sir, conduct yourself like one. The Circumlocution Office2022-12-16T14:45:27+00:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Appearance (Person)| Read More
We talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannise over them too; we are fond of having a large superfluous establishment of words to wait upon us on great occasions; we think it looks important, and sounds well. The Circumlocution Office2019-07-30T20:54:05+01:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Talking| Read More
My rescue from this kind of existence I considered quite hopeless, and abandoned, as such, altogether. The Circumlocution Office2021-01-18T12:17:39+00:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Abandonment, Childhood| Read More
I have no doubt I shall, please Heaven, begin to be more beforehand with the world, and to live in a perfectly new manner, if -if, in short, anything turns up. The Circumlocution Office2019-08-06T17:45:59+01:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Hope| Read More
It was as true as taxes is. And nothing’s truer than them. The Circumlocution Office2019-08-06T17:45:01+01:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Money, Tax| Read More
That slow agony of my youth. The Circumlocution Office2021-01-18T12:08:19+00:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Abandonment, Childhood| Read More
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. The Circumlocution Office2019-05-05T11:13:41+01:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Debt, Money| Read More
Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families. The Circumlocution Office2021-02-24T18:35:47+00:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Accidents, Family| Read More
