Quotes from Charles Dickens
"O' course I came to look arter you, my darlin'," replied Mr. Weller; for once permitting his passion to get the better of his veracity.
- Charles Dickens
I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason-but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner.
- Charles Dickens
Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.
- Charles Dickens
The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.
- Charles Dickens
Please, sir, I want some more.
- Charles Dickens
Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.
- Charles Dickens
Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
- Charles Dickens
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
- Charles Dickens
I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.
- Charles Dickens
Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.
- Charles Dickens
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
- Charles Dickens
But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.
- Charles Dickens