--- title: "6 Crowds Quotes By Charles Dickens" description: "6 Crowds quotes by Charles Dickens. Plus more from Charles Dickens and more Crowds sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/752/charles-dickens-34_crowd_anything-that-makes-a-noise-is-satisfact_76595.jpg" --- > [Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/anything-that-makes-a-noise-is-satisfactory-to-a-crowd/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/752/charles-dickens-34_crowd_anything-that-makes-a-noise-is-satisfact_76595.jpg) > [Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/why-should-i-disguise-what-you-know-so-well-but-what-the-crowd-never/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24c/charles-dickens-34_animal_why-should-i-disguise-what-you-know-so-w_1065844.jpg) > [Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/stephen-blackpool-fall-into-the-loneliest-of-lives-the-life-of/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58c/charles-dickens-34_blackpool_stephen-blackpool-fall-into-the-lonelies_1739717.jpg) > [My uncle, gentlemen, could say nothing; he was so very much astonished The queerest thing of all, was, that although there was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/my-uncle-gentlemen-could-say-nothing-he-was-so-very-much-astonished/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90a/charles-dickens-34_air_my-uncle-gentlemen-could-say-nothing-he_1971534.jpg) > [The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer's morning, is most striking even to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-appearance-presented-by-the-streets-of-london-an-hour-before/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca2/charles-dickens-34_accustomed_the-appearance-presented-by-the-streets_2603326.jpg) > [Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/although-a-man-may-lose-a-sense-of-his-own-importance-when-he-is-a/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d8/charles-dickens-34_busy_although-a-man-may-lose-a-sense-of-his-o_3130743.jpg) ## Other authors on Crowds ## More by Charles Dickens > [“All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/all-other-swindlers-upon-earth-are-nothing-to-the-self-swindlers-and/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/arthur-gride-whose-bleared-eyes-gloated-only-over-the-outward/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/there-can-be-no-disparity-in-marriage-like-unsuitability-of-mind-and/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/i-have-tried-to-resign-myself-and-to-console-myself-and-that-i-hope-i/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [A new heart for a New Year, always!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/a-new-heart-for-a-new-year-always/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-suspense-the-fearful-acute-suspense-of-standing-idly-by-while-the/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/mrs-joe-was-a-very-clean-housekeeper-but-had-an-exquisite-art-of/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/there-seems-a-magic-in-the-very-name-of-christmas/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“evening, they began to think that although he could never hope to be an Englishman, still it would be hard to visit that affliction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/evening-they-began-to-think-that-although-he-could-never-hope-to-be/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“Besides which, all that I could have said of the Story to any purpose, I had endeavoured to say in it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/besides-which-all-that-i-could-have-said-of-the-story-to-any-purpose/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“The wheels rolled on, and rolled down by the Monument, and by the Tower; and by the Docks; down by Ratcliffe, and by Rotherhithe;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-wheels-rolled-on-and-rolled-down-by-the-monument-and-by-the-tower/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“The three customers pulled off their hats to Madame Defarge, with three flourishes. She acknowledged their homage by bending her head, and giving them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-three-customers-pulled-off-their-hats-to-madame-defarge-with/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/what-a-situation-cried-miss-squeers-what-is-the-reason-that-men-fall/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/i-admire-machinery-as-much-is-any-man-and-am-as-thankful-to-it-as-any/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/mr-pickwick-was-a-philosopher-but-philosophers-are-only-men-in-armour/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/crowds/charles-dickens/#itemlist", "name": "6 Crowds Quotes By Charles Dickens", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Dickens" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/anything-that-makes-a-noise-is-satisfactory-to-a-crowd/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/752/charles-dickens-34_crowd_anything-that-makes-a-noise-is-satisfact_76595.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/752/charles-dickens-34_crowd_anything-that-makes-a-noise-is-satisfact_76595.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/752/charles-dickens-34_crowd_anything-that-makes-a-noise-is-satisfact_76595.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.” — Charles Dickens", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? 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