Charles Dickens Quotes

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.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance.

Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language.

You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

Change begets change.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

I was so humiliated, hurt, spurned, offended, angry, sorry--I cannot hit upon the right name for the smart--God knows what its name was--that tears started to my eyes.

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one.

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.

If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

There might be some credit in being jolly.

Polly put the kettle on, we'll all have tea.

To a young heart everything is fun.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.

I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

Grief never mended no broken bones.

Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.