Quotes by Charles Dickens
We are so very 'umble.
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
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.
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
'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.
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.
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
