Charles Dickens Quotes
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We are not rich in the bank, but we have always prospered and we have quite enough. I never walk out with my husband but I hear the people bless him. I never lie down at night, but I know that in the course of that day he has alleviated pain and soothed some fellow creature in the time of need. Is not this to be rich?
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I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.
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Never have a Mission, my dear child.
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... The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.
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And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his daughter to his heart’s content. “As good as gold,” said Bob, “and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.
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... Waiter! raw beef-steak for the gentleman's eye,-nothing like raw beef-steak for a bruise, sir; cold lamp-post very good, but lamp-post inconvenient-damned odd standing in the open street half-an-hour, with your eye against a lamp.
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Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.
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She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.
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There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen.
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Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.
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It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.
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How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen!
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Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously.
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I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
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It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.
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Let me see you ride a donkey over my green again, and as sure as you have a head upon your shoulders, I'll knock your bonnet off, and tread upon it!
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Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.
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It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
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I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee.
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He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been, in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away, by the fervour of this reproach.
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He had a cane, he had an eye-glass, he had a snuff-box, he had rings, he had wristbands, he had everything but any touch of nature; he was not like youth, he was not like age, he was not like anything in the world but a model of deportment.
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... still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine.
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Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!
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You have no idea what it is to have anybody wonderful fond of you, unless you have been got down and rolled upon by the lonely feelings that I have mentioned as having once got the better of me.