Nature Quotes by Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

— Charles Dickens

“I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.”

— Charles Dickens

Death is nature's remedy for all things

— Charles Dickens

Them which is of other naturs thinks different.

— Charles Dickens

One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.

— Charles Dickens

“Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human natur.”

— Charles Dickens

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

— Charles Dickens

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.

— Charles Dickens

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where…

— Charles Dickens

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

— Charles Dickens

“I am a disappointed drudge, sir. I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me”

— Charles Dickens

Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing…

— Charles Dickens

“in that one glimpse of a better nature, born as it was in selfish thoughts, the rich man felt himself friendless, childless,…

— Charles Dickens

The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.

— Charles Dickens

“I would abandon it, and live otherwise and elsewhere. It is little to relinquish. What is it but a wilderness of misery…

— Charles Dickens

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

— Charles Dickens

“On inanimate nature, as on the men and women who cultivated it, a prevalent tendency towards an appearance of vegetating unwillingly—a dejected…

— Charles Dickens

The day was made for laziness, and lying on one's back in green places, and staring at the sky till its brightness…

— Charles Dickens

It was understood that nothing of a tender nature could possibly be confided to old Barley, by reason of his being totally…

— Charles Dickens

The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river…

— Charles Dickens

It was the beginning of a day in June; the deep blue sky unsullied by a cloud, and teeming with brilliant light.…

— Charles Dickens

Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great…

— 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

It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly…

— 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

Indeed the worthy housewife was of such a capricious nature, that she not only attained a higher pitch of genius than Macbeth,…

— Charles Dickens

At last, in the dead of the night, when the street was very still indeed, Little Dorrit laid the heavy head upon…

— Charles Dickens

It was a murky confusion — here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel…

— Charles Dickens

He lowered the window, and looked out at the rising sun. There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon…

— Charles Dickens

The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of…

— Charles Dickens

There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds…

— Charles Dickens

Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth…

— Charles Dickens

“A long suburb of red brick houses -some with patches of garden-ground, where coal-dust and factory smoke darkened the shrinking leaves, and…

— Charles Dickens

“Alas ! How few of Nature's faces are left alone to gladden us with their beauty ! The cares, and sorrows, and…

— Charles Dickens

“He saw that men who worked hard, and earned their scanty bread with lives of labour, were cheerful and happy; and that…

— Charles Dickens

“The pony having thoroughly satisfied himself as to the nature and properties of the fireplug, looked into the air after his old…

— Charles Dickens

“Always something in the nature of a Boil upon the face of society, Mr. Honeythunder expanded into an inflammatory Wen in Minor…

— 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

“. . .for in natures, as in seas, depth answers unto depth”

— Charles Dickens

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

— Charles Dickens