Ifs Quotes by Charles Dickens

Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity.

— Charles Dickens

If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.

— Charles Dickens

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

— Charles Dickens

[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.

— Charles Dickens

A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.

— Charles Dickens

He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

— Charles Dickens

If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot.

— Charles Dickens

The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me.

— Charles Dickens

Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats…

— Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes.…

— Charles Dickens

If you can't get to be oncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. So don't tell…

— Charles Dickens

Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering

— Charles Dickens

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this…

— Charles Dickens

There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some…

— Charles Dickens

... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow…

— Charles Dickens

'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps…

— Charles Dickens

“If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the…

— Charles Dickens

If you will take me for your wife, Walter, I will love you dearly. If you will let me go with you,…

— Charles Dickens

“Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every…

— Charles Dickens

O, if the deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear; for how much…

— Charles Dickens

People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's…

— Charles Dickens

I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I…

— Charles Dickens

Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm…

— Charles Dickens

He says-him as was here just now-'When Tom shut up the house, mate, to go to rack, the beds was left, all…

— Charles Dickens

Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it…

— Charles Dickens

Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by…

— Charles Dickens

We will wait," answered little Alice, taking Nettie's hand in hers, and looking up to the sky, "we will wait - ever…

— Charles Dickens

But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a…

— Charles Dickens

It was a murky confusion — here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel…

— Charles Dickens

I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be…

— Charles Dickens

One thing about this face was very strange and startling. You could not look upon it in its most cheerful mood without…

— Charles Dickens

The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither…

— Charles Dickens

If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was…

— Charles Dickens

Well," said my aunt, "this is his boy - his son. He would be as like his father as it's possible to…

— Charles Dickens

The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had…

— Charles Dickens

I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken…

— Charles Dickens

If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.

— Charles Dickens

I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.

— Charles Dickens

You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often.…

— Charles Dickens

If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort of spring…

— Charles Dickens