Life Quotes by Charles Dickens

Champagne is one of the elegant extras in life.

— Charles Dickens

Trifles make the sum of life.

— Charles Dickens

I wear the chains I forged in life.

— Charles Dickens

“Yours is a long life to look back upon, sir?”

— Charles Dickens

A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence.

— Charles Dickens

We forge the chains we wear in life.

— Charles Dickens

This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

— Charles Dickens

“All that is loathsome, drooping, or decayed is here.”

— Charles Dickens

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

— Charles Dickens

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

— Charles Dickens

A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of…

— Charles Dickens

“These books were a way of escaping from the unhappiness of my life.”

— Charles Dickens

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

— Charles Dickens

“But he is only stunned by the unvanquishable difficulty of his existence.”

— Charles Dickens

“On the Rampage, Pip, and off the Rampage, Pip - such is Life!”

— Charles Dickens

“It is one of the easiest achievements in life to offend your family when your family want to get rid of you.”

— Charles Dickens

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

— Charles Dickens

“He has got his discharge, by G-! said the man. He had. But he had grown so like death in life, that…

— Charles Dickens

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is,…

— Charles Dickens

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down…

— Charles Dickens

Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion…

— Charles Dickens

When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of…

— Charles Dickens

For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this…

— Charles Dickens

“Our whole life, Travellers," said I, "is a story more or less intelligible, - generally less; but we shall read it by…

— Charles Dickens

“The Judge, whose eyes had gone in the general direction, recalled them, leaned back in his seat, and looked steadily at the…

— Charles Dickens

It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in…

— Charles Dickens

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody…

— 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

“Pip, dear old chap. life is made of ever many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man's a blacksmith…

— Charles Dickens

“To stop the clock of busy existence at the hour when we were personally sequestered from it, to suppose mankind stricken motionless…

— Charles Dickens

And yet I love him. I love him so much and so dearly, that when I sometimes think my life may be…

— Charles Dickens

There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride…

— Charles Dickens

“Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full…

— Charles Dickens

“She seemed to exist in a kind of allegory, and having these shapes about her, claimed my interest so strongly, that (as…

— Charles Dickens

“I am sure I loved that baby quite as truly, quite as tenderly, with greater purity and more disinterestedness, than can enter…

— Charles Dickens

“Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever…

— Charles Dickens

“We are thankful to come here for rest, sir," said Jenny. "You see, you don't know what the rest of this place…

— Charles Dickens

“As the prospect gradually revealed itself and disclosed the scene over which the wind had wandered in the dark, like my memory…

— Charles Dickens

“My dear Michael, I have given you my heart. I have said that I loved you, and I have pledged myself to…

— Charles Dickens

“They are man's,' said the spirit, looking down upon them. 'And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is…

— Charles Dickens