Charles Dickens Quotes
+8Have 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
+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
+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
+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
+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
+1Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
– Charles Dickens
+1Do all the good you can, and make as little fuss about it as possible.
- Charles Dickens
+1Cheerfulness and content are great beautifiers and famous preservers of good looks.
- Charles Dickens
+1Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.
- Charles Dickens
+1Reflect on your present blessings of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.
- Charles Dickens
+1I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
- Charles Dickens
+1He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.
- Charles Dickens
0Credit is a system whereby a person who can’t pay gets another person who can’t pay to guarantee that he can pay.
- Charles Dickens
0Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
- Charles Dickens
0Anything for a quiet life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
- Charles Dickens
