Inspirational Quotes by Charles Dickens

I ate 'umble pie with an appetite.

— Charles Dickens

Friendship? Yes Please.

— Charles Dickens

Have a heart that never hardens

— Charles Dickens

A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!

— Charles Dickens

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

— Charles Dickens

Heaven suits the back to the burden.

— Charles Dickens

There wasn't room to swing a cat there.

— Charles Dickens

Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison.

— Charles Dickens

The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it.

— Charles Dickens

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will but learn.

— Charles Dickens

Champagne is one of the elegant extras in life.

— Charles Dickens

Circumstances beyond my individual control.

— Charles Dickens

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

— Charles Dickens

Polly put the kettle on, we'll all have tea.

— Charles Dickens

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

— Charles Dickens

“She indulged in melancholy, that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries...”

— Charles Dickens

“She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be.”

— Charles Dickens

The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings.

— Charles Dickens

Walter," she said, looking full upon him with her affectionate eyes, "like you, I hope for better things. I will pray for…

— Charles Dickens

“The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat…

— 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

“Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art." (Last words, according to Dickens's…

— Charles Dickens

Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic.

— Charles Dickens

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

— Charles Dickens

I have had my share of sorrows-more than the common lot, perhaps, but I have borne them ill. I have broken where…

— Charles Dickens

I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it…

— Charles Dickens

Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do…

— Charles Dickens

There are chords in the human heart- strange, varying strings- which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless…

— Charles Dickens

If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and…

— Charles Dickens

Some happy talent, and some fortunate opportunity, may form the two sides of the ladder on which some men mount, but the…

— Charles Dickens

“I should like to ask you:-Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your mother's knee, seem…

— 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

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

— Charles Dickens

'I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in…

— Charles Dickens

“It's a bad job," he said, when I had done; "but the sun sets every day, and people die every minute, and…

— Charles Dickens

Hope to the last!" said Newman, clapping him on the back. "Always hope; that's dear boy. Never leave off hoping; it don't…

— Charles Dickens

“They said of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefullest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that…

— Charles Dickens

Recollections of the past and visions of the present come to bear me company; the meanest man to whom I have ever…

— Charles Dickens

Change begets change.

— Charles Dickens

Why then we should drop into poetry.

— Charles Dickens