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  • And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.

    "Fictional character: Lady Dedlock". "Bleak House" Episode #1.1, www.imdb.com. 2005.
  • The plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to put his foot where he cannot see the ground.

    Party   Dark   Feet  
    Charles Dickens (1867). “Bleak House”, p.220
  • Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had.

    Anna Quindlen (2009). “Being Perfect”, p.36, Random House
  • I was shocked by the reaction I got for Bleak House. It was very intensive but one of the best jobs of my life. It was a chance to play a character that grows and develops and I was very enmeshed in it. But I didn't realise how stylish it was and how much people would love it.

    Jobs   Character   Play  
  • Having seen Justin's work on Bleak House, I knew that he'd be incredibly well prepared and interesting stylistically for this and that was definitely the case. It's very liberating for actors - and I can only speak for myself here - but he creates a very loose environment and he's a great collaborator.

    "The Other Boleyn Girl - Eric Bana interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

    Mean   Love Is   Effort  
    Charles Dickens (2010). “Bleak House”, p.207, Broadview Press
  • So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The Last of the Mohicans. Did it then seem probable, as he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall? Had Almighty God, in all His infinite wisdom, really been afraid that men six thousand years ago would succeed in building a tower to heaven?

    Book   Men   Islands  
  • The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

    Bleak House ch. 39 (1853)
  • I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

    Bleak House ch. 6 (1853)
  • Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell.

    Charles Dickens (2016). “Bleak House (Diversion Classics)”, p.185, Diversion Books
  • The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings.

    1852-3 Bleak House, ch.39.
  • No-one is going to sit down and read Bleak House to the family any more, but they can all huddle up happily in front of Charles Bronson.

    House   Down And   Bleak  
  • I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

    Bleak House ch. 6 (1853)
  • Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of almost anonymous American men who failed. With wit and sympathy, Sandage illuminates the grey world of credit evaluation, a little studied smothering arm of capitalism. This is history as it should be, a work of art exploring the social cost of our past.

    Beautiful   Art   Writing  
  • Bleak House by Charles Dickens is my favourite book.

    Book   House   Favourite  
  • It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

    Truth   Greatness   Men  
    Bleak House ch. 28 (1853)
  • But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

    Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.391
  • 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.

    Heart   Men   Compassion  
    'Bleak House' (1853) ch. 47 (on the death of Jo)
  • The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.

    Charles Dickens (1852). “Bleak House”, p.101
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