--- title: "9 Forgotten Quotes By Charles Dickens" description: "9 Forgotten quotes by Charles Dickens. Plus more from Charles Dickens and more Forgotten sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd0/charles-dickens-34_affair_dickens-writes-that-an-event-began-to-be_2844080.jpg" --- > [Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/dickens-writes-that-an-event-began-to-be-forgotten-as-most-affairs/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd0/charles-dickens-34_affair_dickens-writes-that-an-event-began-to-be_2844080.jpg) > [... Herbert said of himself, with his eyes fixed on the fire, that he thought he must have committed a felony and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/herbert-said-of-himself-with-his-eyes-fixed-on-the-fire-that-he/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aae/charles-dickens-34_character_herbert-said-of-himself-with-his-eyes-fi_2883827.jpg) > [He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/he-was-consious-of-a-thousand-odours-floating-in-the-air-each-one/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c2/charles-dickens-34_air_he-was-consious-of-a-thousand-odours-flo_1953762.jpg) > [It is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature, that, when the heart is touched and softened by some tranquil happiness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/it-is-an-exquisite-and-beautiful-thing-in-our-nature-that-when-the/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36f/charles-dickens-34_affectionate_it-is-an-exquisite-and-beautiful-thing-i_2761998.jpg) > [We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/we-need-be-careful-how-we-deal-with-those-about-us-when-every-death/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/482/charles-dickens-34_be-careful_we-need-be-careful-how-we-deal-with-thos_994088.jpg) > [There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/there-is-nothing-no-nothing-innocent-or-good-that-dies-and-is/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39d/charles-dickens-34_action_there-is-nothing-no-nothing-innocent-or_1720102.jpg) > [Never, never, before Heaven, have I thought of you but as the single, bright, pure, blessed recollection of my boyhood and my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/never-never-before-heaven-have-i-thought-of-you-but-as-the-single/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec1/charles-dickens-34_blessed_never-never-before-heaven-have-i-thought_2286616.jpg) > [He lived in chambers that had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/he-lived-in-chambers-that-had-once-belonged-to-his-deceased-partner/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a71/charles-dickens-34_building_he-lived-in-chambers-that-had-once-belon_1523693.jpg) > [Then, at the end of every hand, Miss Bolo would inquire with a dismal countenance and reproachful sigh, why Mr. Pickwick had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/then-at-the-end-of-every-hand-miss-bolo-would-inquire-with-a-dismal/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41c/charles-dickens-34_aces_then-at-the-end-of-every-hand-miss-bolo_2315951.jpg) ## Other authors on Forgotten ## 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/forgotten/charles-dickens/#itemlist", "name": "9 Forgotten Quotes By Charles Dickens", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Dickens writes that an event, \"began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Dickens" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/dickens-writes-that-an-event-began-to-be-forgotten-as-most-affairs/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd0/charles-dickens-34_affair_dickens-writes-that-an-event-began-to-be_2844080.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd0/charles-dickens-34_affair_dickens-writes-that-an-event-began-to-be_2844080.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd0/charles-dickens-34_affair_dickens-writes-that-an-event-began-to-be_2844080.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Dickens writes that an event, \"began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food…” — Charles Dickens", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "... 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