--- title: "22 House Quotes By Charles Dickens" description: "22 House quotes by Charles Dickens. Plus more from Charles Dickens and more House sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd1/charles-dickens-34_closets_they-are-so-filthy-and-bestial-that-no-h_821851.jpg" --- > [They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/they-are-so-filthy-and-bestial-that-no-honest-man-would-admit-one/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd1/charles-dickens-34_closets_they-are-so-filthy-and-bestial-that-no-h_821851.jpg) > [... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/as-lonesome-as-a-kitten-in-a-wash-house-copper-with-the-lid-on/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3da/charles-dickens-34_copper_as-lonesome-as-a-kitten-in-a-wash-house_172263.jpg) > [We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/we-came-to-the-house-and-it-is-an-old-house-full-of-great-chimneys/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11b/charles-dickens-34_ancient_we-came-to-the-house-and-it-is-an-old-ho_2438725.jpg) > [I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/i-would-like-to-be-going-all-over-the-kingdom-and-acting-everywhere/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c18/charles-dickens-34_acting_i-would-like-to-be-going-all-over-the-ki_3132329.jpg) > [I will die here where I have walked. And I will walk here, though I am in my grave. I will walk…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/i-will-die-here-where-i-have-walked-and-i-will-walk-here-though-i-am/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8cb/charles-dickens-34_dies_i-will-die-here-where-i-have-walked-and_1237183.jpg) > [Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/hallo-a-great-deal-of-steam-the-pudding-was-out-of-the-copper-a-smell/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1f/charles-dickens-34_cookery_hallo-a-great-deal-of-steam-the-pudding_1330108.jpg) > [And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/and-still-i-stood-looking-at-the-house-thinking-how-happy-i-should-be/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95e/charles-dickens-34_house_and-still-i-stood-looking-at-the-house-t_735671.jpg) > [Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/houses-were-knocked-down-enormous-heaps-of-earth-and-clay-thrown-up/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8be/charles-dickens-34_beam_houses-were-knocked-down-enormous-heaps_344161.jpg) > [Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/under-none-of-the-accredited-ghostly-circumstances-and-environed-by/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ae/charles-dickens-34_acquaintance_under-none-of-the-accredited-ghostly-cir_257749.jpg) > [Dombey and Son had often dealt in hides, but never in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/dombey-and-son-had-often-dealt-in-hides-but-never-in-hearts-they-left/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb7/charles-dickens-34_alliances_dombey-and-son-had-often-dealt-in-hides_2723293.jpg) > [What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/what-connexion-can-there-be-between-the-place-in-lincolnshire-the/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf6/charles-dickens-34_brooms_what-connexion-can-there-be-between-the_1074782.jpg) > [There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/there-was-a-frosty-rime-upon-the-trees-which-in-the-faint-light-of-2/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c0/charles-dickens-34_branches_there-was-a-frosty-rime-upon-the-trees-w_1926948.jpg) > [Houses were knocked down; streets broken through and stopped; deep pits and trenches dug in the ground; enormous heaps of earth and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/houses-were-knocked-down-streets-broken-through-and-stopped-deep-pits/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f51/charles-dickens-34_beam_houses-were-knocked-down-streets-broken_558939.jpg) > [She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/she-was-the-most-wonderful-woman-for-prowling-about-the-house-how-she/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/517/charles-dickens-34_connected_she-was-the-most-wonderful-woman-for-pro_2607710.jpg) > [I can see others in the sunlight; I can see our boats' crews and our athletic young men on the glistening water,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/i-can-see-others-in-the-sunlight-i-can-see-our-boats-crews-and-our/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c9b/charles-dickens-34_athletic_i-can-see-others-in-the-sunlight-i-can-s_591206.jpg) > [The haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place; he might have groped among old churches and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-haggard-aspect-of-the-little-old-man-was-wonderfully-suited-to/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/784/charles-dickens-34_aspect_the-haggard-aspect-of-the-little-old-man_1973941.jpg) > [He says-him as was here just now-'When Tom shut up the house, mate, to go to rack, the beds was left, all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/he-says-him-as-was-here-just-now-when-tom-shut-up-the-house-mate-to/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b19/charles-dickens-34_bed_he-says-him-as-was-here-just-now-when-to_864623.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) > [Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/of-all-the-ruinous-and-desolate-places-my-uncle-had-ever-beheld-this/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/524/charles-dickens-34_broken_of-all-the-ruinous-and-desolate-places-m_3019201.jpg) > [When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/when-they-took-a-young-man-into-tellson-s-london-house-they-hid-him/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0cd/charles-dickens-34_blue_when-they-took-a-young-man-into-tellson_408786.jpg) > [They whirled past the dark trees, as feathers would be swept before a hurricane. Houses, gates, churches, hay-stacks, objects of every kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/they-whirled-past-the-dark-trees-as-feathers-would-be-swept-before-a/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a93/charles-dickens-34_church_they-whirled-past-the-dark-trees-as-feat_2288877.jpg) > [It was the beginning of a day in June; the deep blue sky unsullied by a cloud, and teeming with brilliant light.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/it-was-the-beginning-of-a-day-in-june-the-deep-blue-sky-unsullied-by/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c44/charles-dickens-34_air_it-was-the-beginning-of-a-day-in-june-th_1856614.jpg) ## Other authors on House ## 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/house/charles-dickens/#itemlist", "name": "22 House Quotes By Charles Dickens", "numberOfItems": 22, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Dickens" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/they-are-so-filthy-and-bestial-that-no-honest-man-would-admit-one/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd1/charles-dickens-34_closets_they-are-so-filthy-and-bestial-that-no-h_821851.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd1/charles-dickens-34_closets_they-are-so-filthy-and-bestial-that-no-h_821851.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd1/charles-dickens-34_closets_they-are-so-filthy-and-bestial-that-no-h_821851.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.” — Charles Dickens", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Dickens" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/as-lonesome-as-a-kitten-in-a-wash-house-copper-with-the-lid-on/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3da/charles-dickens-34_copper_as-lonesome-as-a-kitten-in-a-wash-house_172263.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3da/charles-dickens-34_copper_as-lonesome-as-a-kitten-in-a-wash-house_172263.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3da/charles-dickens-34_copper_as-lonesome-as-a-kitten-in-a-wash-house_172263.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.” — Charles Dickens", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs upon the hearth, and grim portraits (some of them with grim legends, too) lower distrustfully from the oaken panels of the walls.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Dickens" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/we-came-to-the-house-and-it-is-an-old-house-full-of-great-chimneys/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11b/charles-dickens-34_ancient_we-came-to-the-house-and-it-is-an-old-ho_2438725.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11b/charles-dickens-34_ancient_we-came-to-the-house-and-it-is-an-old-ho_2438725.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11b/charles-dickens-34_ancient_we-came-to-the-house-and-it-is-an-old-ho_2438725.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs…” — Charles Dickens", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. 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