Children Quotes by Charles Dickens

“The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.”

— Charles Dickens

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.

— Charles Dickens

“...[their] children were not growing up or being brought up, but were tumbling up.”

— Charles Dickens

I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.

— Charles Dickens

“The carpenter's daughter has won a name for herself, and deserved to win it”

— Charles Dickens

And it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

— Charles Dickens

“The picturesque doctor's daughter, Miss Manette.”

— Charles Dickens

My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.

— Charles Dickens

I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disninterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.

— Charles Dickens

“Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art." (Last words, according to Dickens's…

— Charles Dickens

My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic…

— Charles Dickens

the dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be…

— Charles Dickens

“There was once a king, and he had a queen; and he was the manliest of his gender, and she was the…

— Charles Dickens

“But, like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield”

— Charles Dickens

“he seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts, and prepared to blow them clean out of the regions…

— Charles Dickens

It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young…

— Charles Dickens

“Drunkenness - that fierce rage for the slow, sure poison, that oversteps every other consideration; that casts aside wife, children, friends, happiness,…

— Charles Dickens

I am in the theatrical profession myself, my wife is in the theatrical profession, my children are in the theatrical profession.I had…

— Charles Dickens

Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and…

— Charles Dickens

“I think,” said my guardian, thoughtfully regarding her, “I think it must be somewhere written that the virtues of the mothers shall…

— Charles Dickens

“My dear!” I remonstrated, in allusion to the epithet and the vigorous emphasis Miss Jellyby set upon it. “Your duty as a…

— Charles Dickens

“She did not greatly alter in appearance. The plain dark dresses, akin to mourning dresses, which she and her child wore, were…

— Charles Dickens

There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride…

— Charles Dickens

“The sands are the children’s great resort. They cluster there, like ants: so busy burying their particular friends, and making castles with…

— Charles Dickens

But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a…

— Charles Dickens

“It was nothing to her, that an innocent man was to die for the sins of his forefathers; she saw, not him,…

— Charles Dickens

“it was such a curious corner in its acoustical properties, such a peculiar Ear of a place, that as Mr. Loory stood…

— Charles Dickens

That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their…

— Charles Dickens

And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his…

— Charles Dickens

We will wait," answered little Alice, taking Nettie's hand in hers, and looking up to the sky, "we will wait - ever…

— Charles Dickens

“The dreams of childhood—its airy fables; its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond: so good to be believed-in once,…

— Charles Dickens

“I really do not know, in my Castle, what loneliness is. Some of our children or grandchildren are always about it, and…

— Charles Dickens

“My dear child,' said the old gentleman, moved by the warmth of Oliver's sudden appeal, 'you need not be afraid of my…

— Charles Dickens

“I begin to think,' said Estella, in a musing way, after another moment of calm wonder, 'that I almost understand how this…

— Charles Dickens

“. . . such a rush immediately ensued that she with laughing face and plundered dress was borne towards it the centre…

— Charles Dickens

“The same mistake presents itself to me, in one shape or other, at every turn,' said brother Charles. 'Parents who never showed…

— Charles Dickens

“Encircled by the social thoughts of Christmas-time, still let the benignant figure of my childhood stand unchanged! In every cheerful image and…

— Charles Dickens

“But, imbued from her childhood with a brooding sense of wrong, and an inveterate hatred of a class, opportunity had developed her…

— Charles Dickens

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

— Charles Dickens

For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this…

— Charles Dickens