Charles Dickens Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Use - to live by his own industry in England, rather than on the industry of the overladen people of France.
Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured
Little Dorrit that she had not seen Mr F.'s Aunt so full of life and character for weeks; that she would find it necessary to
Yes. I'm going to take a holiday. More than that; I'm going to take a walk. More than that; I'm going to ask you to take a walk with me.
In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease
a terrible passing inclination to die of it.
a terrible passing inclination to die of it.
Come in,
come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before!
come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before!
it is not unreasonable to ask that the weaving may be looked at in its completed state, and with the pattern finished. If
I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us.
Plea XXI. Echoing Footsteps XXII. The Sea Still Rises XXIII. Fire Rises XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock Book
We all did what we undertake to do, as faithfully as Herbert did, we might live in a Republic of the Virtues.
We part with tender relations stretching far behind us, that never can be exactly renewed, and with others dawning - yet before us ...
Your manners have been of that silent and sullen and hangdog kind, that, upon my life and soul, I have been ashamed of you, Sydney!
Give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister, - Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith. As
The beauty of the earth is but a breath, and man is but a shadow. What sympathy should a holy preacher have with either?
Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously.
He then begs to make his dear Twemlow known to his two friends, Mr. Boots and Mr. Brewer - and clearly has no distinct idea which is which.
It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.
Can you - can you sit down?" asked Scrooge, looking doubtfully at him. "I can." "Do it, then." Scrooge asked
On this matter I'm inclined to agree with the French, who gaze upon any personal dietary prohibition as bad manners.
(a specially oily old gentleman in a blanket, with a swan's-down tippet for a beard, and a web of cracks all over him like rich pie-crust),
Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats to the work.
The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.
Dickens writes that an event, began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.
In short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted
Such is the sleight of hand by which we juggle with ourselves, and change our very weaknesses into stanch and most magnanimous virtues!
But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.
Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.
Judiciously show a cat, milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.
I, trembling in spirit and worshipping the very hem of her dress; she, quite composed and most decidedly not worshipping the hem of mine.
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves
When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.
Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.
He couldn't finish the name. The final letter swelled in his throat, to the size of the whole alphabet.
Upon my word and honour I seem to be fated, and destined, and ordained, to live in the midst of things that I am never to hear the last of.
My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.
"You see," said Mr. Toots, "what I wanted in a wife was - in short, was sense. Money, Feeder, I had. Sense I - I had not, particularly."
You'll find that as you get vider, you'll get viser. Vidth and visdom, Sammy, alvays grows together.
It is a world of disappointment: often to the hopes we most cherish, and hopes that do our nature the greatest honour.
Next Mrs. Crupp said it was clear she couldn't be in two places at once (which I felt to be reasonable) ...
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
accepting his patronage as he accepted every incident of the labyrinthian world in which he had got lost.
Unless we learn to do our duty to those whom we employ, they will never learn to do their duty to us