Humor Quotes by Charles Dickens

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

— Charles Dickens

“Darkness was cheap, and Scrooge liked it.”

— Charles Dickens

“Demon—with the highest respect for you—behold your work!”

— Charles Dickens

“You are not in a fit state to come here, if you can't come here without spluttering like a bad pen.”

— Charles Dickens

“there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.”

— Charles Dickens

“Next Mrs. Crupp said it was clear she couldn't be in two places at once (which I felt to be reasonable). . .”

— Charles Dickens

“My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.”

— Charles Dickens

The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.

— Charles Dickens

“But I am thinking like a lover, or like an ass: which I suppose is pretty nearly the same.”

— Charles Dickens

“I am in a ridiculous humour,' quoth Eugene; 'I am a ridiculous fellow. Everything is ridiculous. Come along!”

— Charles Dickens

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in…

— Charles Dickens

“...And a cool four thousand, Pip!" I never discovered from whom Joe derived the conventional temperature of the four thousand pounds, but…

— Charles Dickens

“Mr. Tope is again highly entertained, and, having fallen into respectful convulsions of laughter, subsides into a deferential murmur, importing that surely…

— Charles Dickens

“My Uriah,' said Mrs. Heep, 'has looked forward to this, sir, a long while. He had his fears that our umbleness stood…

— Charles Dickens

Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a…

— Charles Dickens

“Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise…

— Charles Dickens

“Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of…

— Charles Dickens

“Gentlemen," returned Mr. Micawber, "do with me as you will! I am a straw upon the surface of the deep, and am…

— Charles Dickens

“You mightn't think it, but Sloppy is a beautiful reader of a newspaper. He do the Police in different voices' The visitors…

— Charles Dickens

“My sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, was more than twenty years older than I, and had established a great reputation with herself and…

— Charles Dickens

That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their…

— Charles Dickens

“I tell you what, Mr. Fledgeby,' said Lammle, advancing on him. 'Since you presume to contradict me, I'll assert myself a little.…

— Charles Dickens

“This was a vagrant of sixty-five, who was going to prison for not playing the flute; or, in other words, for begging…

— Charles Dickens

“Sit down, my dear,” said Mr. Jarndyce. “This, you must know, is the growlery. When I am out of humour, I come…

— Charles Dickens

“...The bottom of his garden joins the bottom of ours, and of course I had several times seen him, sitting among the…

— Charles Dickens

“Second: them poor things well out o' this, and never no more will I interfere with Mrs. Cruncher's flopping, never no more!"…

— Charles Dickens

“Would you like to be taught Latin?' I said briskly. 'I will teach it to you with pleasure as I learn it.'…

— Charles Dickens

“Mrs. Crisparkle had need of her own share of philanthropy when she beheld this very large and very loud excrescence on the…

— Charles Dickens

“Besides, the kettle was aggravating and obstinate. It wouldn't allow itself to be adjusted on the top bar; it wouldn't hear of…

— Charles Dickens

“He has a very nice face and style, really," said Mrs. Kenwigs. "He certainly has," added Miss Petowker. "There's something in his…

— Charles Dickens

“There is something indefinably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners…

— Charles Dickens

“Bless the bright eyes of your sex! They never see, whether for good or bad, more than one side of any question;…

— Charles Dickens

“The air among the houses was of so strong a piscatory flavour that one might have supposed sick fish went up to…

— Charles Dickens

“I hardly seem yet," returned Charles Darnay, "to belong to this world again." "I don't wonder at it; it's not so long…

— Charles Dickens

“But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female…

— Charles Dickens

“And let us tranquilize ourselves by making a compact. Next time (with a view to our peace of mind) we'll commit the…

— Charles Dickens

“What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or…

— Charles Dickens