Quotes from Charles Dickens

I knew I was as innocent of my birth as a queen of hers and that before my Heavenly Father I should not be punished for birth nor a queen rewarded for it.

lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications

vigorous tenacity of love, always so much stronger than hate,

It's all very true! It's a weakness to be so affectionate, but I can't help it.

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

I never thought, when I used to read books, what work it was to write them.... It's work enough to read them sometimes.... As to the writing, it has its own charms.

Men who are thoroughly false and hollow, seldom try to hide those vices from themselves; and yet in very act of avowing them, they lay claim to the virtues they feign most to despise

Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more.

Hot punch is a pleasant thing, gentlemen---an extremely pleasant thing under any circumstances---but in that snug old parlour, before the roaring fire, with the wind blowing outside till every timber in the old house creaked again, Tom Smart found it perfectly delightful.

Why, my girl,' cried Mr Meagles, more breathless than before, 'how did you come over?

The sunset struck so brilliantly into the travelling carriage when it gained the hill-top, that its occupant was steeped in crimson.