Quotes by Charles Dickens
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
He would make a lovely corpse.
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.
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
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.
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!
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
We forge the chains we wear in life.
A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.
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.
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.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
