Quotes By Charles Dickens

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

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.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

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

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.

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

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.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

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.

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.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

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

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

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.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

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

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

We forge the chains we wear in life.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.