--- title: "20 Names Quotes By Charles Dickens" description: "20 Names quotes by Charles Dickens. Plus more from Charles Dickens and more Names sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af9/charles-dickens-34_comfort-of-home_home-is-a-name-a-word-it-is-a-strong-one_2277921.jpg" --- > [Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/home-is-a-name-a-word-it-is-a-strong-one/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af9/charles-dickens-34_comfort-of-home_home-is-a-name-a-word-it-is-a-strong-one_2277921.jpg) > [Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/take-the-pencil-and-write-under-my-name-i-forgive-her/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0c/charles-dickens-34_forgiveness_take-the-pencil-and-write-under-my-name_1172329.jpg) > [Never sign a valentine with your own name.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/never-sign-a-valentine-with-your-own-name/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71d/charles-dickens-34_heart_never-sign-a-valentine-with-your-own-nam_3184335.jpg) > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a6/charles-dickens-34_christmas_there-seems-a-magic-in-the-very-name-of_5104.jpg) > [Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/your-honour-unless-your-honour-without-a-moment-s-loss-of-time-makes/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f03/charles-dickens-34_coffins_your-honour-unless-your-honour-without-a_1930233.jpg) > [I was so humiliated, hurt, spurned, offended, angry, sorry--I cannot hit upon the right name for the smart--God knows what its name…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/i-was-so-humiliated-hurt-spurned-offended-angry-sorry-i-cannot-hit/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c70/charles-dickens-34_angry_i-was-so-humiliated-hurt-spurned-offende_2871993.jpg) > [Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/marley-was-dead-to-begin-with-there-is-no-doubt-whatever-about-that-2/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/079/charles-dickens-34_burial_marley-was-dead-to-begin-with-there-is-n_3042152.jpg) > [There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/there-are-some-upon-this-earth-of-yours-returned-the-spirit-who-lay/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/248/charles-dickens-34_bigotry_there-are-some-upon-this-earth-of-yours_2054475.jpg) > [If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/if-her-eyes-had-no-expression-it-was-probably-because-they-had/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a10/charles-dickens-34_character_if-her-eyes-had-no-expression-it-was-pro_915448.jpg) > [“I know'd my name to be Magwitch, chrisen'd Abel. How did I know it? Much as I know'd the birds' names in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/i-know-d-my-name-to-be-magwitch-chrisen-d-abel-how-did-i-know-it-much/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ddd/charles-dickens-34_quote_i-know-d-my-name-to-be-magwitch-chrisen_1892177.jpg) > [When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better--those I love are gathered together; and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/when-i-speak-of-home-i-speak-of-the-place-where-in-default-of-a/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/84f/charles-dickens-34_barns_when-i-speak-of-home-i-speak-of-the-plac_675039.jpg) > [Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/mr-cruncher-always-spoke-of-the-year-of-our-lord-as-anna-dominoes/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f01/charles-dickens-34_anna_mr-cruncher-always-spoke-of-the-year-of_515569.jpg) > [My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/my-father-s-family-name-being-pirrip-and-my-christian-name-philip-my/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/898/charles-dickens-34_christian_my-father-s-family-name-being-pirrip-and_614267.jpg) > [I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/i-believe-no-satirist-could-breathe-this-air-if-another-juvenal-or/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/331/charles-dickens-34_air_i-believe-no-satirist-could-breathe-this_2987081.jpg) > [If you will take me for your wife, Walter, I will love you dearly. If you will let me go with you,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/if-you-will-take-me-for-your-wife-walter-i-will-love-you-dearly-if/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a09/charles-dickens-34_breathe_if-you-will-take-me-for-your-wife-walter_1695137.jpg) > [If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitious man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/if-an-enthusiastic-ardent-and-ambitious-man-marry-a-wife-on-whose/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8a/charles-dickens-34_ambitious-man_if-an-enthusiastic-ardent-and-ambitious_485025.jpg) > [The first diabolical character who intruded himself on my peaceful youth (as I called to mind that day at Dullborough), was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-first-diabolical-character-who-intruded-himself-on-my-peaceful/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a49/charles-dickens-34_appetite_the-first-diabolical-character-who-intru_502805.jpg) > [The Secretary, working in the Dismal Swamp betimes next morning, was informed that a youth waited in the hall who gave the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-secretary-working-in-the-dismal-swamp-betimes-next-morning-was/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e73/charles-dickens-34_decent_the-secretary-working-in-the-dismal-swam_1631905.jpg) > [What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/what-is-natural-in-me-is-natural-in-many-other-men-i-infer-and-so-i/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6d/charles-dickens-34_bounds_what-is-natural-in-me-is-natural-in-many_1938418.jpg) > [“What, you’re looking at my lodger’s birds, Mr. Jarndyce?” The old man had come by little and little into the room, until…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/what-you-re-looking-at-my-lodger-s-birds-mr-jarndyce-the-old-man-had/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ea/charles-dickens-34_birds_what-you-re-looking-at-my-lodger-s-birds_1396055.jpg) ## Other authors on Names ## 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/names/charles-dickens/#itemlist", "name": "20 Names Quotes By Charles Dickens", "numberOfItems": 20, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one…", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Dickens" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/home-is-a-name-a-word-it-is-a-strong-one/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af9/charles-dickens-34_comfort-of-home_home-is-a-name-a-word-it-is-a-strong-one_2277921.jpg", "contentUrl": 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