It’s in vain, Trot, to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. The Circumlocution Office2019-12-10T12:04:02+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 Office2019-12-04T11:10:00+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
My lamp burns low, and I have written far into the night; but the dear presence, without which I were nothing, bears me company. The Circumlocution Office2019-08-06T17:44:58+01:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Emotions| Read More
I lived principally on Dora and coffee. The Circumlocution Office2019-01-07T16:57:20+00:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Food, Love| Read More
A large, mild, smooth-faced man of sixty, who took so much snuff that there was a tradition in the Commons that he lived principally on that stimulant, having little room in his system for any other article of diet. The Circumlocution Office2019-01-07T16:57:38+00:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Appearance (Person)| Read More
The mingled reality and mystery of the whole show, the influence upon me of the poetry, the lights, the music, the company, the smooth stupendous changes of glittering and brilliant scenery, were so dazzling, and opened up such illimitable regions of delight, that when I came out into the rainy street, at twelve o’clock at night, I felt as if I had come from the clouds. The Circumlocution Office2019-01-07T16:57:39+00:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Theatre| Read More
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. The Circumlocution Office2019-01-07T16:57:39+00:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Marriage| Read More
Cheeks and arms so hard and red that I wondered the birds didn’t peck her in preference to apples. The Circumlocution Office2019-01-07T16:57:40+00:00Categories: David Copperfield|Tags: Appearance (Person)| Read More
