Charles Dickens Quotes

Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.

One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

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

There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn't paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows - they leap in like sugary ninjas

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

You have been the last dream of my soul.

Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Have a heart that never hardens

Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.

And it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.

Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

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

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

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.

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.

And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.

it's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

Satisfy yourself beyond all doubt that you are qualified for the course to which you now aspire.....and try to achieve something in your own land before you venture on a strange one.