Charles Dickens Quotes
Oh, miss Haversham said I, there have been sore mistakes and my life has been a blind and thankless one, and I want forgiveness and direction far too much to be bitter with you.
For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, and the other goes away.
Modernity kills ghostly romance("The Undying Thing")
I have remembered Who wept for a parting between the living and the dead.
... Any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness!
Remember how strong we are in our happiness and how weak he is in his misery!
The air was filled with phantoms... and... the misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power forever.
Wish me everything that you can wish for the woman you dearly love, and I have as good as got it, John. I have better than got it, John.
Let us take heed how we laugh without reason, lest we cry with it.
He cross-examined his very wine when he had nothing else at hand.
He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very severely.
To surround anything, however monstrous or ridiculous, with an air of mystery, is to invest it with a secret charm, and power of attraction which to the crowd is irresistible.
When the Attorney-General ceased, a buzz arose in the court as if a cloud of great blue-flies were swarming about the prisoner, in anticipation of what he was soon to become.
...and who must have had something real about her, or she could not have existed, but it certainly was not her hair, or her teeth, or her figure, or her complexion.
I'm a devil at a quick mistake, and when I make one it takes the form of Lead.
Whatsume'er the failings on his part, Remember reader he were that good in his hart.
He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.
...lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to the same.
On this matter I'm inclined to agree with the French, who gaze upon any personal dietary prohibition as bad manners.
We have had for breakfast, toasts, cakes, a yorkshire pie, a piece of beef about the size and much the shape of my portmanteau, tea, coffee, ham and eggs...
He could take on anything and everything, it seemed, rather than leave himself time to reflect on his dissatisfaction with his life and what he might do about it.
Are you thankful for not being young?''Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?...
I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore – yes, I do well.
I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause.
My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.
Apprehension of a painful or disagreeable recognition made me tremble. I am confident that it took no distinctness of shape, and that it was the revival for a few minutes of the terror of childhood.
For our path in life...is stony and rugged now, and it rests with us to smooth it. We must fight our way onward. We must be brave. There are obstacles to be met, and we must meet, and crush them!
I hope I know my own unworthiness, and that I hate and despise myself and all my fellow-creatures as every practicable Christian should.
He had no notion of meeting danger half-way. When it came upon him, he confronted it, but it must come before he troubled himself.
It is well if you go in for revenge to make it as complete as possible.("The Vengeance Of The Dead")
So may the New Year be a happy one to you, happy to many more whose happiness depends on you!
The society of girls is a very delightful thing, Copperfield. It's not professional, but it's very delightful.
There never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death.
Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
I have an acute sense of delicacy. Naturally I am prejudiced in favour of virtue.("The Accursed Cordonnier")
