World Quotes by Charles Dickens

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

— Charles Dickens

This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

— Charles Dickens

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

— Charles Dickens

What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!

— Charles Dickens

'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

— Charles Dickens

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to the world!

— Charles Dickens

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

— Charles Dickens

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

— Charles Dickens

And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only…

— Charles Dickens

I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disninterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.

— Charles Dickens

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

— Charles Dickens

“We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on.…

— Charles Dickens

It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but…

— Charles Dickens

Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them

— Charles Dickens

the dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be…

— Charles Dickens

Opening her eyes again, and seeing her husband's face across the table, she leaned forward to give it a pat on the…

— Charles Dickens

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of…

— Charles Dickens

And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this…

— Charles Dickens

Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for…

— Charles Dickens

I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter…

— Charles Dickens

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and…

— Charles Dickens

When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred…

— Charles Dickens

He had a certain air of being a handsome man-which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man-which…

— Charles Dickens

Long may it remain in this mixed world a question not easy of decision, which is the more beautiful evidence of the…

— 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

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

— 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

And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his…

— Charles Dickens

There once was a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a…

— 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

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

— Charles Dickens

Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the…

— Charles Dickens

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

— Charles Dickens

The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.

— Charles Dickens

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!

— Charles Dickens

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

— Charles Dickens

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

— Charles Dickens

The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

— Charles Dickens

Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats…

— Charles Dickens

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

— Charles Dickens