--- title: "4 Excess Quotes By Charles Dickens" description: "4 Excess quotes by Charles Dickens. Plus more from Charles Dickens and more Excess sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b94/charles-dickens-34_body_minds-like-bodies-will-often-fall-into-a_818522.jpg" --- > [Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/minds-like-bodies-will-often-fall-into-a-pimpled-ill-conditioned/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b94/charles-dickens-34_body_minds-like-bodies-will-often-fall-into-a_818522.jpg) > [ “\[...\] certain it is that minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort, and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/certain-it-is-that-minds-like-bodies-will-often-fall-into-a-pimpled/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b55/charles-dickens-34_excess_certain-it-is-that-minds-like-bodies-wil_1089379.jpg) > [Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/vices-are-sometimes-only-virtues-carried-to-excess/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/499/charles-dickens-34_character_vices-are-sometimes-only-virtues-carried_2457613.jpg) > [Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/ah-miss-harriet-it-would-do-us-no-harm-to-remember-oftener-than-we-do/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28d/charles-dickens-34_character_ah-miss-harriet-it-would-do-us-no-harm-t_2792623.jpg) ## Other authors on Excess - [Aristotle 17 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/aristotle/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/william-shakespeare/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 9 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-laozi-58536.jpg) Laozi 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/laozi/) - [Samuel Johnson 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/samuel-johnson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-plato-75782.jpg) Plato 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/plato/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-mason-cooley-65303.jpg) Mason Cooley 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/mason-cooley/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b012/author-james-madison-46533.jpg) James Madison 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/james-madison/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-horace-42297.jpg) Horace 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/horace/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-charles-caleb-colton-22176.jpg) Charles Caleb Colton 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/charles-caleb-colton/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-blaise-pascal-18353.jpg) Blaise Pascal 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/blaise-pascal/) ## 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/excess/charles-dickens/#itemlist", "name": "4 Excess Quotes By Charles Dickens", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Dickens" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/minds-like-bodies-will-often-fall-into-a-pimpled-ill-conditioned/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b94/charles-dickens-34_body_minds-like-bodies-will-often-fall-into-a_818522.jpg", "contentUrl": 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