Books Quotes by Charles Dickens

We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

— Charles Dickens

“These books were a way of escaping from the unhappiness of my life.”

— Charles Dickens

You are in every line I have ever read.

— Charles Dickens

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

— Charles Dickens

“Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever Book the First—Recalled”

— Charles Dickens

You have been in every line I have ever read

— Charles Dickens

“Preparation V. The Wine-shop VI. The Shoemaker Book the Second—the Golden Thread I. Five”

— Charles Dickens

“Contents Book the First—Recalled to Life I. The Period II. The Mail III. The Night Shadows”

— Charles Dickens

... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow…

— Charles Dickens

“The Shoemaker Book the Second—the Golden Thread I. Five Years Later II. A Sight”

— Charles Dickens

“Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever Book the First—Recalled”

— Charles Dickens

“The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever Book the First—Recalled to Life”

— Charles Dickens

“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. 'Were”

— Charles Dickens

I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.

— Charles Dickens

We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of successive ages, the just and…

— Charles Dickens

“Mr Pinch accordingly, after turning over the leaves of his book with as much care as if they were living and highly…

— Charles Dickens

“His high spiced wares were made to sell, and they sold; and his thousands of readers could as rationally charge their delight…

— Charles Dickens

I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he…

— Charles Dickens

When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the…

— Charles Dickens

“and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can…

— Charles Dickens

“You shall read them, if you behave well,' said the old gentleman kindly; 'and you will like that, better than looking at…

— Charles Dickens

“So true are these avowals at the present day, that I can now only take the reader into one confidence more. Of…

— Charles Dickens

“You mightn't think it, but Sloppy is a beautiful reader of a newspaper. He do the Police in different voices' The visitors…

— Charles Dickens

“I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it,…

— Charles Dickens

It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too." Are you, Joe?" Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a…

— Charles Dickens

“The fire? It has been alive as long as I have. We talk and think together all night long. It’s like a…

— Charles Dickens

“There are a good many books, are there not, my boy?” said Mr. Brownlow, observing the curiosity with which Oliver surveyed the…

— Charles Dickens

“My father had left a small collection of books in a little room upstairs, to which I had access (for it adjoined…

— Charles Dickens

Dombey and Son had often dealt in hides, but never in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and…

— Charles Dickens

“I remarked in the original Preface to this Book, that I did not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from…

— Charles Dickens

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.…

— 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

“A mystery man has just died in the novel. I've had these same thoughts when I see some of the homeless. "Then…

— Charles Dickens

“Mr. Dick, listening with a face shining with pride and pleasure, in his heart of hearts, believed the Dictionary to be the…

— Charles Dickens

“I laboured hard at my book, without allowing it to interfere with the punctual discharge of my newspaper duties; and it came…

— Charles Dickens

“Some of my readers may have an interest in being informed whether or no any portions of the Marshalsea Prison are yet…

— Charles Dickens

“But what were even gold and silver, precious stones and clockwork, to the bookshops, whence a pleasant smell of paper freshly pressed…

— Charles Dickens

“In the Victorian times there was much demand for Christmas books, which would make an ideal gift, as well provide amusing entertainment…

— Charles Dickens

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

— Charles Dickens

“Book the Second—the Golden Thread I. Five Years Later II. A Sight III. A Disappointment IV.”

— Charles Dickens