Quotes By Charles Dickens

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

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

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

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

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

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

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.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

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.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.