Charles Dickens Quotes
+2Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.
- Charles Dickens
+1Never sign a valentine with your own name.
- Charles Dickens
+1If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.
- Charles Dickens
+1I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.
- Charles Dickens
+1“It was as true”, said Mr. Barkus, “as taxes is. And nothing is truer than them.”
- Charles Dickens
+1Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
- Charles Dickens
+1Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!…. his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes.
- Charles Dickens
+1It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
- Charles Dickens
+1It 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.
- Charles Dickens
+1Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
- Charles Dickens
+1Charity begins at home and justice begins next door.
- Charles Dickens
+1Take example by your father, my boy, and be very careful of vidders all your life, specially if they’ve kept a public house, Sammy.
- Charles Dickens
+1Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
- Charles Dickens
+1The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy; walk and be healthy. The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose.
- Charles Dickens
+1All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.
- Charles Dickens
+1He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
- Charles Dickens
+1A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
- Charles Dickens
+1Known by the sobriquet of “The Artful Dodger.”
- Charles Dickens
+1Called me wessel, Sammy a wessel of wrath.
- Charles Dickens
+1The dodgerest of all the dodgers.
- Charles Dickens
+1The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.
- Charles Dickens
+1Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
- Charles Dickens
+1I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
- Charles Dickens
+1. . . there are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
- Charles Dickens
+1You don’t carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.
- Charles Dickens