Famous Quotes by Charles Dickens
- Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges... More
- It is sometimes called the City of Magnificent Distances, but it might with greater propriety be... More
- It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of... More
- A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound... More
- Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day’s... More
- It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that... More
- A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper—a phrase which being interpreted... More
- To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day... More
- Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often... More
- This is the Court of Chancery; which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every... More
- Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of... More
- Mr. Chadband is a large yellow man, with a fat smile, and a general appearance of having a good... More
- Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so... More
- It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. More
- Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. More
- “Under an accumulation of staggerers, no man can be considered a free agent. No man knocks... More
- I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to... More
- Now what I want is facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but facts. Facts alone are wanted in... More
- Kent, sir—everybody knows Kent—apples, cherries, hops, and women. More
- Here’s the rule for bargains: “Do other men, for they would do you.” That’s the true... More
- With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. More
- Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted... More
- Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever... More
- Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares... More
- If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is... More
- He is a wonderfully accomplished man—most extraordinarily accomplished—reads—hem—reads... More
- There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. More
- “Epic poem,—ten thousand lines—revolution of July—composed it on the spot—Mars by day,... More
- It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline... More
- It was as true as taxes is. And nothing’s truer than them. More
- I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us... More
- If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers. More
- “If the law supposes that,” said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands,... More
- It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so... More
- “The unities, sir,’ he said, “are a completeness—a kind of universal dovetailedness with... More
- I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys, and beef-faced boys. More
- The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. More
- A man in public life expects to be sneered at—it is the fault of his elevated sitiwation, and... More
- Keep out of Chancery.... It’s being ground to bits in a slow mill; it’s being roasted at a... More
- “And what about the cash, my existence’s jewel?” More
- Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that... More
- Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! More
- A person who can’t pay gets another person who can’t pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a... More
- “Ask the perfumers, ask the blacking-makers, ask the hatters, ask the old lottery-office... More
- Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human natur’. More
- There are strings in the human heart that had better not be wibrated. More
- Language was not powerful enough to describe the infant phenomenon. “I’ll tell you what,... More
- “I am in the theatrical profession myself, my wife is in the theatrical profession, my children... More
- “I don’t suppose there’s a man going, as possesses the fondness for youth that I do.... More
- Take example by your father, my boy, and be very careful o’ widders all your life, specially if... More
- Ven you’re a married man, Samivel, you’ll understand a good many things as you don’t... More
- Take example by your father, my boy, and be wery careful o’ vidders all your life, specially if... More
- The plot was most interesting. It belonged to no particular age, people, or country, and was... More
- Drinking tents were full, glasses began to clink in carriages, hampers to be unpacked, tempting... More
- May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the... More
- He was a tough, burly thick-headed gentleman, with a loud voice, a pompous manner, a tolerable... More
- Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his... More
- One of the many to whom, from straightened circumstances, a consequent inability to form the... More
- Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky... More
- Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered... More
- There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less... More
- There was no speculation so promising, or at the same time so praisworthy, as the United... More
- An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous... More
- Miss Knag still aimed at youth, although she had shot beyond it, years ago. More
- It was not exactly a hairdresser’s; that is to say, people of a coarse and vulgar turn of mind... More
- There was a literary gentleman present who who had dramatised in his time two hundred and... More
- That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s... More
- A baked leg of mutton, with potatoes to correspond. More
- Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if him all to yourself, his taste... More
- It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for... More
- Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng,... More
- Please, sir, I want some more. More
- Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some... More
- Three meals of thin gruel a day, with an onion twice a week, and half a roll on Saturdays. More
- There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast. More
- It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the... More
- They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a... More
- I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so... More
- No man ever walked down to posterity with so small a book under his arm. More
- I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together. More
- “It’s a wery remarkable circumstance, sir”, said Sam, “that poverty and oysters seems to... More
- “Avay with melincholly, as the little boy said ven his school-missis died.’ More
- “Wotever is, is right, as the young nobleman sveetly remarked wen they put him down in the... More
- Battledore and shuttlecock’s a wery good game, vhen you an’t the shuttlecock and two lawyers... More
- “Angel in tights and garters”... More
- ... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on. More
- The dignity of his office is never impaired by the absence of efforts on his part to maintain it. More
- Minerva House ... was “a finishing establishment for young ladies,” where some twenty girls... More
- The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. More
- ... one of those fortunate men who, if they were to dive under one side of a barge stark-naked,... More
- It’s immoral to steal, but you can take things.
The dignity of his office is never impaired... More
- The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the the land,
In England there shall... More
- I’ll sing you a new ballad, and I’ll warrant it first-rate,
Of the days of that old... More
- In those rare days, the press was seldom known to snarl or bark,
But sweetly sang of men in... More
- We know, Mr. Weller—we, who are men of the world—that a good uniform must work its way with... More
- Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew. More
- I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face.... More
- The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer’s shop,... More
- In mind, she was of a strong and vigorous turn, having from her earliest youth devoted herself... More
- Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old... More
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