Men Quotes by Charles Dickens

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

— Charles Dickens

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you

— Charles Dickens

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

— Charles Dickens

Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.

— Charles Dickens

He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.

— Charles Dickens

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

— Charles Dickens

Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.

— Charles Dickens

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

— 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

Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.

— Charles Dickens

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units…

— Charles Dickens

An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.

— 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

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

— Charles Dickens

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last…

— Charles Dickens

The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.

— Charles Dickens

Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and…

— Charles Dickens

Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after…

— Charles Dickens

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but…

— Charles Dickens

In truth, no men on earth can cheer like Englishmen, who do so rally one another's blood and spirit when they cheer…

— Charles Dickens

There's a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a Angel. That young man hears the…

— Charles Dickens

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born…

— Charles Dickens

Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals…

— Charles Dickens

I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a…

— Charles Dickens

The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen…

— Charles Dickens

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look…

— Charles Dickens

This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good…

— Charles Dickens

I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself…

— Charles Dickens

When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in…

— Charles Dickens

It is a long time,' repeated his wife; 'and when is it not a long time? Vengeance and retribution require a long…

— Charles Dickens

The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found…

— Charles Dickens

Man is but mortal: and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend. Mr. Pickwick gazed through his spectacles for…

— Charles Dickens

The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.

— Charles Dickens

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.

— Charles Dickens

Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.

— Charles Dickens

Philosophers are only men in armor after all.

— Charles Dickens

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

— Charles Dickens

A man must take the fat with the lean.

— Charles Dickens

It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's…

— Charles Dickens

A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!

— Charles Dickens