Quotes By Charles Dickens

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

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.

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

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

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.

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

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

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.