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.
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
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.
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.
A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
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.
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
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.
Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
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.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
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.
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
