Words matter. These are the best Charles Dickens Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
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.
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
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.
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
He would make a lovely corpse.
He would make a lovely corpse.
We forge the chains we wear in life.
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.
Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
‘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’.
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
‘Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
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.
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.
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
A boy’s story is the best that is ever told.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
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.
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
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!
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
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.
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
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.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
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.
We are so very ‘umble.
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
