Quotes from Charles Dickens
I wants to make your flesh creep.
- Charles Dickens
Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
- Charles Dickens
I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that - as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.
- Charles Dickens
He's a-going out with the tide.
- Charles Dickens
Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.
- Charles Dickens
An idea, like a ghost (according to the common notion of ghosts), must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
- Charles Dickens
"She's the sort of woman now," said Mould… "one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too!"
- Charles Dickens
He stood looking after them... as though he had perceived that they had come back accompanied by a ghost a-piece.
- Charles Dickens
Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving—how not to do it.
- Charles Dickens
Money and goods are certainly the best of references.
- Charles Dickens
"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."
- Charles Dickens
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
- Charles Dickens