Charles Dickens Quotes
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'Wal'r, my boy,' replied the Captain, 'in the Proverbs of Solomon you will find the following words, 'May we never want a friend in need, nor a bottle to give him!' When found, make a note of.'
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Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.
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Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.
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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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Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
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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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'Did you ever taste beer?' 'I had a sip of it once,' said the small servant. 'Here's a state of things!' cried Mr Swiveller, raising his eyes to the ceiling. 'She never tasted it - it can't be tasted in a sip!'
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The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.
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... I feel certain that his tale is true. Feeling that certainty, I befriend him. As long as that certainty shall last, I will befriend him. And if any consideration could shake me in this resolve, I should be so ashamed of myself for my meanness, that no man's good opinion - no, nor no woman's - so gained, could compensate me for the loss of my own.
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The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.
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Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all.
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It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves.
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Polly put the kettle on, we'll all have tea.
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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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He wos wery good to me, he wos!
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... when the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides to the fire, and sits down in the chair we have left there, wringing her hands.
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If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.
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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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She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be.
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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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We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.
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Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.
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Your sex have such a surprising animosity against one another when you do differ.
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If any one were to ask me what in my opinion was the dullest and most stupid spot on the face of the Earth, I should decidedly say Chelmsford.