May Quotes by Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

— Charles Dickens

Christmas may not bring a single thing; still, it gives me a song to sing.

— Charles Dickens

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

— Charles Dickens

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

— Charles Dickens

Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.

— Charles Dickens

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities…

— Charles Dickens

Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.

— Charles Dickens

Why, what I may think after dinner," returns Mr. Jobling, "is one thing, my dear Guppy, and what I may think before…

— Charles Dickens

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being…

— Charles Dickens

[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.

— Charles Dickens

I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.

— Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you…

— Charles Dickens

She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined…

— 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

If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing,…

— Charles Dickens

Long may it remain in this mixed world a question not easy of decision, which is the more beautiful evidence of the…

— Charles Dickens

Oh Agnes, Oh my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when…

— Charles Dickens

Ecod, you may say what you like of my father, then, and so I give you leave," said Jonas. "I think it's…

— Charles Dickens

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in…

— Charles Dickens

I take my leave of you, Mr. Creakle, and all of you," said Mr. Mell, glancing round the room, and again patting…

— Charles Dickens

Vell," said Mr. Weller, "Now I s'pose he'll want to call some witnesses to speak to his character, or p'raps to prove…

— 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

The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came…

— Charles Dickens

I go so far as to say, miss, morehover," proceeded Mr. Cruncher, with a most alarming tendency to hold forth as from…

— Charles Dickens

It is one of those problems of human nature, which may be noted down, but not solved; - although Ralph felt no…

— Charles Dickens

If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am…

— Charles Dickens

Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth…

— Charles Dickens

Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.

— Charles Dickens

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

— Charles Dickens

The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season's greetings and good wishes. May your holidays…

— Charles Dickens

May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us?…

— Charles Dickens

We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing…

— 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

Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all…

— Charles Dickens

Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down 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

It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is…

— Charles Dickens

As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against…

— Charles Dickens

It's an old habit of mine, Wal'r," said the Captain, "any time these fifty year. When you see Ned Cuttle bite his…

— Charles Dickens

You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's…

— Charles Dickens