Quotes By Charles Dickens

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.

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

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

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

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

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

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

He would make a lovely corpse.

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

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.

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

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

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

We forge the chains we wear in life.

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

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.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

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