Time Quotes by Charles Dickens

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

— Charles Dickens

“In this brief life our ours, it is sad to do almost anything for the last time.”

— Charles Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

— Charles Dickens

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

— Charles Dickens

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

— Charles Dickens

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

— Charles Dickens

“Time does his work honestly, and I don't mind him. A”

— Charles Dickens

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

— Charles Dickens

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

— Charles Dickens

Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship,…

— Charles Dickens

“The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become.”

— 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

There were times when he could not read the face he had studied so long, and when this lonely girl was a…

— Charles Dickens

Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.

— Charles Dickens

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate…

— Charles Dickens

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I…

— Charles Dickens

“And let us not remember Italy the less regardfully, because, in every fragment of her fallen Temples, and every stone of her…

— Charles Dickens

It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that…

— 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

“Because, sir, the way I look at it is that we are all drawing on to the bottom of the hill, whatever…

— Charles Dickens

We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking…

— Charles Dickens

She forgot to be shy at the moment, in honestly warning him away from the sunken wreck he had a dream of…

— Charles Dickens

I have always thought of Christmas as a good time; a kind, forgiving, generous, pleasant time; a time when men and women…

— Charles Dickens

“Having some foundation for believing, by this time, that nature and accident had made me an author, I pursued my vocation with…

— Charles Dickens

“I was only going to say," said Scrooge's nephew, "that the consequence of his taking a dislike to us, and not making…

— Charles Dickens

“First, not a word more from you about the past. There was an error in your calculations. I know what that is.…

— Charles Dickens

“But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas-time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred…

— Charles Dickens

“I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the…

— Charles Dickens

Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself…

— 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

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age…

— Charles Dickens

“All was over in a moment. I had fulfilled my destiny. I was a captive and a slave. I loved Dora Spenlow…

— Charles Dickens

“Old Time heaved a moldy sigh from tomb and arch and vault; and gloomy shadows began to deepen in corners; and damps…

— Charles Dickens

“For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. If my career were of that better kind that there…

— Charles Dickens

“The purpose was, that I would go to Biddy, that I would show her how humbled and repentant I came back, that…

— Charles Dickens

“Most of our readers will remember, that, until within a very few years past, there was a kind of iron cage in…

— Charles Dickens

“There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,' returned the…

— Charles Dickens

“And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment. How many families, whose members…

— Charles Dickens

“I see Barsad, and Cly, Defarge, The Vengeance, the Juryman, the Judge, long ranks of the new oppressors who have risen on…

— Charles Dickens

“Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused—in whose mind…

— Charles Dickens