Top 1041 Quotes & Sayings by Charles Dickens
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
He would make a lovely corpse.
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
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.
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
We forge the chains we wear in life.
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
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.
A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
We are so very 'umble.
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
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