When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life. The Circumlocution Office2021-09-19T21:33:06+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Appearance (Places), Moon, Night, Solitude| Read More
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. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-14T09:04:33+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Charity, Philanthropy, Virtue signalling| Read More
The lawyers have twisted it into such a state of bedevilment that the original merits of the case have long disappeared from the face of the earth. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-14T08:33:00+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Bureauracy, Law| Read More
How mankind ever came to be afflicted with wiglomeration, or for whose sins these young people ever fell into a pit of it, I don’t know; so it is. The Circumlocution Office2019-08-06T22:59:07+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Bureauracy, Law| 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
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
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
Constancy in love is a good thing, but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-14T08:31:25+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Dedication, Love| Read More
The Chancellor will have something to say about it; the satellites will have something to say about it; they will all have to be handsomely feed, all round, about it; the whole thing will be vastly ceremonious, wordy, unsatisfactory, and expensive, and I call it, in general, wiglomeration. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-12T10:31:54+01:00Categories: Bleak House|Tags: Bureauracy, Law| Read More
