Quotes from Charles Dickens
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
- Charles Dickens
Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
- Charles Dickens
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.
- Charles Dickens
He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.
- Charles Dickens
Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it.
- Charles Dickens
Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.
- Charles Dickens
... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me.
- Charles Dickens
Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!
- Charles Dickens
You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.
- Charles Dickens
Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.
- Charles Dickens
Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.
- Charles Dickens
They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.
- Charles Dickens