Charles Dickens Quotes
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The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
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Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.
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It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.
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There was a little plate of hothouse nectarines on the table, and there was another of grapes, and another of sponge-cakes, and there was a bottle of light wine ... 'This is my frugal breakfast ... Give me my peach, my cup of coffee, and my claret.'
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Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
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A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
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It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.
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O let us love our occupations,Bless the squire and his relations,Live upon our daily rations,And always know our proper stations.
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I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!
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There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
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Minerva House … was 'a finishing establishment for young ladies,' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.
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For nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
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I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy.
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Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold
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The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
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I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.
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Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
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The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.
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"It's an old habit of mine, Wal'r," said the Captain, "any time these fifty year. When you see Ned Cuttle bite his nails, Wal'r, then you may know that Ned Cuttle's aground."
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If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.
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There are chords in the human heart- strange, varying strings- which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch.
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You will not have forgotten that it was a maxim with Foxey - our revered father, gentlemen - 'Always suspect everybody.' That's the maxim to go through life with!
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Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together...