--- title: "6 Glasses Quotes By Charles Dickens" description: "6 Glasses quotes by Charles Dickens. Plus more from Charles Dickens and more Glasses sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59d/charles-dickens-34_chinese_pale-and-pinched-up-faces-hovered-about_126008.jpg" --- > [Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/pale-and-pinched-up-faces-hovered-about-the-windows-where-was/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59d/charles-dickens-34_chinese_pale-and-pinched-up-faces-hovered-about_126008.jpg) > [What is your best, your very best, ale a glass?" "Two pence halfpenny," says the landlord, "is the price of the Genuine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/what-is-your-best-your-very-best-ale-a-glass-two-pence-halfpenny-says/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0d/charles-dickens-34_ale_what-is-your-best-your-very-best-ale-a-g_251336.jpg) > [They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/they-enter-locking-themselves-in-descend-the-rugged-steps-and-are/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/faf/charles-dickens-34_black_they-enter-locking-themselves-in-descend_724366.jpg) > [The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-sun-the-bright-sun-that-brings-back-not-light-alone-but-new-life/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f07/charles-dickens-34_cathedrals_the-sun-the-bright-sun-that-brings-back_882376.jpg) > [The rain and hail pattered against the glass; the chimneys quaked and rocked; the crazy casement rattled with the wind, as though…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-rain-and-hail-pattered-against-the-glass-the-chimneys-quaked-and/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21a/charles-dickens-34_chimneys_the-rain-and-hail-pattered-against-the-g_1950510.jpg) > [... Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/take-another-glass-of-wine-and-excuse-my-mentioning-that-society-as-a/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1eb/charles-dickens-34_body_take-another-glass-of-wine-and-excuse-my_2291251.jpg) ## Other authors on Glasses ## 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/glasses/charles-dickens/#itemlist", "name": "6 Glasses Quotes By Charles Dickens", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle glass--an iron wall to them; half-naked shivering figures stopped to gaze at Chinese shawls and golden stuffs of India.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Dickens" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/pale-and-pinched-up-faces-hovered-about-the-windows-where-was/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59d/charles-dickens-34_chinese_pale-and-pinched-up-faces-hovered-about_126008.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59d/charles-dickens-34_chinese_pale-and-pinched-up-faces-hovered-about_126008.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59d/charles-dickens-34_chinese_pale-and-pinched-up-faces-hovered-about_126008.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the…” — Charles Dickens", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What is your best, your very best, ale a glass?\" \"Two pence halfpenny,\" says the landlord, \"is the price of the Genuine Stunning Ale.\" \"Then,\" says I, producing the money, \"just draw me a glass of the Genuine Stunning, if you please, with a good head on it.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Dickens" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/what-is-your-best-your-very-best-ale-a-glass-two-pence-halfpenny-says/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0d/charles-dickens-34_ale_what-is-your-best-your-very-best-ale-a-g_251336.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0d/charles-dickens-34_ale_what-is-your-best-your-very-best-ale-a-g_251336.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0d/charles-dickens-34_ale_what-is-your-best-your-very-best-ale-a-g_251336.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“What is your best, your very best, ale a glass?\" \"Two pence halfpenny,\" says the landlord, \"is the price of…” — Charles Dickens", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. 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