Quotes By Charles Dickens

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.

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

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

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

You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

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!

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.