Charles Dickens Quotes

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.

Get out of this office! I'll have no feelings here.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing compared to self-swindlers.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will

Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

the lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with a red upon it that the sun had never given, and would never take away.

There are strings in the human heart which must never be sounded by another, and drinks that I make myself are those strings in mine.

I recollect it was settled by general consent that India was quite a misrepresented country, and had nothing objectionable in it, but a tiger or two, and a little heat in the warm part of the day.

what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

Lady Dedlock is always the same exhausted deity, surrounded by worshippers, and terribly liable to be bored to death, even while presiding at her own shrine.

I never heerd...nor read of nor see in picters, any angel in tights and gaiters...but...he's a reg'lar thoroughbred angel for all that.

We'll start to forget a place once we left it

God bless us every one.

It is a far far better thing that I do than anything I have ever done it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

Once a gentleman always a gentleman.

This is a world of action and not for moping and droning in.

'Umble we are 'umble we have been 'umble we shall ever be.

If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.

It's over and can't be helped and that's one consolation as they always say in Turkey when they cut the wrong man's head off.

Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes.

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favour of two.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many-not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

Secret and self-contained and solitary as an oyster.

Minds like bodies will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

"It was as true " said Mr. Barkis ... "as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them."

"It was as true" said Mr. Barkus "as taxes is. And nothing is truer than them."

I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.