Words of wisdom Quotes by Charles Dickens

Lord, keep my memory green.

— Charles Dickens

“Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.”

— Charles Dickens

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

— Charles Dickens

He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.

— Charles Dickens

It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

— Charles Dickens

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

— Charles Dickens

A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.

— Charles Dickens

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

— Charles Dickens

It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change.

— Charles Dickens

The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.

— Charles Dickens

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

— Charles Dickens

Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?

— Charles Dickens

It is, as Mr. Rokesmith says, a matter of feeling, but Lor how many matters ARE matters of feeling!

— Charles Dickens

You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often.…

— Charles Dickens

Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the…

— Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and…

— Charles Dickens

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and…

— Charles Dickens

... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

— Charles Dickens

Lord bless you!" said Mr. Omer, resuming his pipe, "a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must…

— Charles Dickens

There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs…

— Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast…

— Charles Dickens

We thought that, perhaps," said I, hesitating, "it is right to begin with the obligations of home, sir; and that, perhaps, while…

— Charles Dickens

No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion;…

— Charles Dickens

As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against…

— Charles Dickens

The jovial party broke up next morning. Breakings-up are capital things in our school-days, but in after life they are painful enough.…

— Charles Dickens

Some philosophers tell us that selfishness is at the root of our best loves and affections. Mr. Dombey's young child was, from…

— Charles Dickens

An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it…

— Charles Dickens

The water of the fountain ran, the swift river ran, the day ran into evening, so much life in the city ran…

— Charles Dickens

... Natural affections and instincts, my dear sir, are the most beautiful of the Almighty's works, but like other beautiful works of…

— Charles Dickens

I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in…

— Charles Dickens

This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good…

— Charles Dickens

Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It…

— Charles Dickens

... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle…

— Charles Dickens

Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of…

— Charles Dickens

My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't…

— Charles Dickens

Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.

— Charles Dickens

When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have…

— Charles Dickens

I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes,…

— Charles Dickens

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

— Charles Dickens

Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen…

— Charles Dickens