Quotes By Charles Dickens

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

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

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.

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.

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 forge the chains we wear in life.

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

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

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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

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.

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

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

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

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.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.