Mind Quotes by Charles Dickens

If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.

— Charles Dickens

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

— Charles Dickens

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

— Charles Dickens

“A spirit that was once a man could hardly feel stranger or lonelier, going unrecognized among mankind, than I feel.”

— Charles Dickens

“But he is only stunned by the unvanquishable difficulty of his existence.”

— Charles Dickens

They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles.

— Charles Dickens

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

— Charles Dickens

“until I almost thought he would gradually blow his whole being into the large hole at the top, and ooze away at…

— Charles Dickens

'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps…

— Charles Dickens

If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was…

— Charles Dickens

This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a…

— Charles Dickens

. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had…

— Charles Dickens

We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing…

— Charles Dickens

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the…

— Charles Dickens

Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

— Charles Dickens

“[...] certain it is that minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort, and…

— Charles Dickens

“He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with other men, and used to companionship with his…

— Charles Dickens

I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little.…

— Charles Dickens

As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome…

— Charles Dickens

To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to…

— Charles Dickens

An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold…

— Charles Dickens

The nephew revenges himself for this, by holding his breath and terrifying his kinswoman with the dread belief that he has made…

— Charles Dickens

Vell," said Mr. Weller, "Now I s'pose he'll want to call some witnesses to speak to his character, or p'raps to prove…

— Charles Dickens

He was the meekest of his sex, the mildest of little men. He sidled in and out of a room, to take…

— Charles Dickens

“Waste forces within him, and a desert all around, this man stood still on his way across a silent terrace, and saw…

— Charles Dickens

“The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful. It was not the faintness of physical weakness, though confinement and hard fare…

— Charles Dickens

“And such was the return to which he had looked through the weary perspective of many years, and for which he had…

— Charles Dickens

There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and…

— Charles Dickens

The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence…

— Charles Dickens

“For the first time the Doctor felt, now, that his suffering was strength and power. For the first time he felt that…

— Charles Dickens

The first diabolical character who intruded himself on my peaceful youth (as I called to mind that day at Dullborough), was a…

— Charles Dickens

“Still, the Doctor walked among the terrors with a steady head. No man better known than he, in Paris at that day;…

— Charles Dickens

“Every day of his life he had a long sitting at the Memorial, which never made the least progress, however hard he…

— Charles Dickens

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

— Charles Dickens

I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can…

— Charles Dickens

Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last.…

— Charles Dickens

“I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or…

— Charles Dickens

“He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very…

— Charles Dickens

The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere,…

— Charles Dickens

... As to sleep, you know, I never sleep now. I might be a Watchman, except that I don't get any pay,…

— Charles Dickens