Quotes By Charles Dickens

You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

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

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

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.

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

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

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

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

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

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

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

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.

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.