Quotes By Charles Dickens

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.

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

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'.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.