Quotes from Charles Dickens

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christ

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all.

Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.

There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.