Quotes from Charles Dickens
There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.
- Charles Dickens
Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.
- Charles Dickens
Reflect upon your present blessings
- Charles Dickens
Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
- Charles Dickens
Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
- Charles Dickens
I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.
- Charles Dickens
Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.
- Charles Dickens
Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.
- Charles Dickens
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
- Charles Dickens
Oh, let us love our occupations, Bless the squire and his relations, Live upon our daily rations, And always know our proper stations.
- Charles Dickens
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
- Charles Dickens
'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
- Charles Dickens