Quotes from Charles Dickens

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.

Never sign a valentine with your own name.

Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.

"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."

The men, who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away--the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us--is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better that at Christmas, when its might Founder was a child Himself.

Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such.

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.

There might be some credit in being jolly.

I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.

It was as true… as turnips is. It was as true… as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.