Quotes By Charles Dickens

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.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

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

Do you spell it with a "V" or a "W"?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.

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.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

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

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.