Quotes from Charles Dickens
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
- Charles Dickens
... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.
- Charles Dickens
A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.
- Charles Dickens
Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.
- Charles Dickens
We forge the chains we wear in life.
- Charles Dickens
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
- Charles Dickens
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
- Charles Dickens
I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.
- Charles Dickens
Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.
- Charles Dickens
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
- Charles Dickens
There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.
- Charles Dickens
Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.
- Charles Dickens