Men Quotes by Charles Dickens

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

— Charles Dickens

Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.

— Charles Dickens

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you

— Charles Dickens

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

— Charles Dickens

Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.

— Charles Dickens

He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.

— Charles Dickens

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will but learn.

— Charles Dickens

A man must take the fat with the lean.

— Charles Dickens

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last…

— Charles Dickens

An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.

— Charles Dickens

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this…

— Charles Dickens

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

— Charles Dickens

A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of…

— Charles Dickens

Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.

— Charles Dickens

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units…

— Charles Dickens

It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it…

— Charles Dickens

The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech; but the countenance of…

— Charles Dickens

It's not put into his head to be buried. It's put into his head to be made useful. You hold your life…

— Charles Dickens

How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and,…

— Charles Dickens

If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and…

— Charles Dickens

“And then I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up…

— Charles Dickens

It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel…

— Charles Dickens

Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all…

— Charles Dickens

Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he…

— Charles Dickens

There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as…

— Charles Dickens

'I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in…

— 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 has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only…

— Charles Dickens

... I feel certain that his tale is true. Feeling that certainty, I befriend him. As long as that certainty shall last,…

— Charles Dickens

I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be…

— Charles Dickens

If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is…

— Charles Dickens

I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I…

— Charles Dickens

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

— Charles Dickens

Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.

— Charles Dickens

Philosophers are only men in armor after all.

— Charles Dickens

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

— Charles Dickens

The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.

— Charles Dickens

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.

— Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have…

— Charles Dickens

Come in, -- come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have…

— Charles Dickens