--- title: "7 Merry Quotes By Charles Dickens" description: "7 Merry quotes by Charles Dickens. Plus more from Charles Dickens and more Merry sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/907/charles-dickens-34_bills_out-upon-merry-christmas-what-s-christma_1360902.jpg" --- > [Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/out-upon-merry-christmas-what-s-christmas-time-to-you-but-a-time-for/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/907/charles-dickens-34_bills_out-upon-merry-christmas-what-s-christma_1360902.jpg) > [A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/a-merry-christmas-to-everybody-a-happy-new-year-to-all-the-world/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/377/charles-dickens-34_believing-in-christm_a-merry-christmas-to-everybody-a-happy-n_1464344.jpg) > [Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/many-merry-christmases-many-happy-new-years-unbroken-friendships/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac7/charles-dickens-34_accumulation_many-merry-christmases-many-happy-new-ye_1547971.jpg) > [every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/every-idiot-who-goes-about-with-a-merry-christmas-on-his-lips-should/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51a/charles-dickens-34_buried_every-idiot-who-goes-about-with-a-merry_1927939.jpg) > [“If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/if-i-could-work-my-will-every-idiot-who-goes-about-with-merry/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85a/charles-dickens-34_christmas_if-i-could-work-my-will-every-idiot-who_2234578.jpg) > [“What right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough. Come then, returned the nephew…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/what-right-have-you-to-be-merry-what-reason-have-you-to-be-merry-you/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe0/charles-dickens-34_merry_what-right-have-you-to-be-merry-what-rea_2399464.jpg) > [I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/i-am-light-as-a-feather-i-am-as-happy-as-an-angel-i-am-as-merry-as-a/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c6/charles-dickens-34_angel_i-am-light-as-a-feather-i-am-as-happy-as_2478090.jpg) ## Other authors on Merry - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 19 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/merry/william-shakespeare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-jrr-tolkien-53849.jpg) J.R.R. Tolkien 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/merry/j-r-r-tolkien/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-washington-irving-94596.jpg) Washington Irving 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/merry/washington-irving/) - [Kamand Kojouri 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/merry/kamand-kojouri/) ## More by Charles Dickens > [“All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/all-other-swindlers-upon-earth-are-nothing-to-the-self-swindlers-and/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/arthur-gride-whose-bleared-eyes-gloated-only-over-the-outward/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/there-can-be-no-disparity-in-marriage-like-unsuitability-of-mind-and/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/i-have-tried-to-resign-myself-and-to-console-myself-and-that-i-hope-i/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [A new heart for a New Year, always!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/a-new-heart-for-a-new-year-always/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-suspense-the-fearful-acute-suspense-of-standing-idly-by-while-the/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/mrs-joe-was-a-very-clean-housekeeper-but-had-an-exquisite-art-of/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/there-seems-a-magic-in-the-very-name-of-christmas/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“evening, they began to think that although he could never hope to be an Englishman, still it would be hard to visit that affliction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/evening-they-began-to-think-that-although-he-could-never-hope-to-be/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“Besides which, all that I could have said of the Story to any purpose, I had endeavoured to say in it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/besides-which-all-that-i-could-have-said-of-the-story-to-any-purpose/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“The wheels rolled on, and rolled down by the Monument, and by the Tower; and by the Docks; down by Ratcliffe, and by Rotherhithe;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-wheels-rolled-on-and-rolled-down-by-the-monument-and-by-the-tower/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“The three customers pulled off their hats to Madame Defarge, with three flourishes. She acknowledged their homage by bending her head, and giving them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-three-customers-pulled-off-their-hats-to-madame-defarge-with/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/what-a-situation-cried-miss-squeers-what-is-the-reason-that-men-fall/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/i-admire-machinery-as-much-is-any-man-and-am-as-thankful-to-it-as-any/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) > [“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/mr-pickwick-was-a-philosopher-but-philosophers-are-only-men-in-armour/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/merry/charles-dickens/#itemlist", "name": "7 Merry Quotes By Charles Dickens", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Out upon merry Christmas! 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