Quotes from Charles Dickens
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
- Charles Dickens
It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.
- Charles Dickens
There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.
- Charles Dickens
a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.
- Charles Dickens
I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.
- Charles Dickens
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.
- Charles Dickens
I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.
- Charles Dickens
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
- Charles Dickens
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
- Charles Dickens
Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.
- Charles Dickens
. . .for in natures, as in seas, depth answers unto depth
- Charles Dickens
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
- Charles Dickens