Parenting Quotes by Charles Dickens

“A curious monomaniac,' said Eugene. 'The man seems to believe that everybody was acquainted with his mother!”

— Charles Dickens

The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.

— Charles Dickens

My hair stands on end at the cost and charges of these boys. Why was I ever a father! Why was my…

— Charles Dickens

“Her father, cheering her, showed a compassionate superiority to this woman's weakness, which was wonderful to see.”

— Charles Dickens

“But, like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield”

— Charles Dickens

I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy

— Charles Dickens

“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I…

— Charles Dickens

“The universe makes rather an indifferent parent, I'm afraid.”

— Charles Dickens

Mr. Bazzard's father, being a Norfolk farmer, would have furiously laid about him with a flail, a pitch-fork, and every agricultural implement…

— Charles Dickens

“I am glad to recollect that when the carrier's cart was at the gate, and my mother stood there kissing me, a…

— Charles Dickens

“The mother who lay in the grave, was the mother of my infancy; the little creature in her arms, was myself, as…

— Charles Dickens

“I think,” said my guardian, thoughtfully regarding her, “I think it must be somewhere written that the virtues of the mothers shall…

— Charles Dickens

“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I…

— Charles Dickens

“...lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to…

— Charles Dickens

“I should be an affected women, if I made any pretence of being surprised by my son's inspiring such emotions; but I…

— Charles Dickens

What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing…

— Charles Dickens

“Lost friend, lost child, lost parent, sister, brother, husband, wife, we will not so discard you! You shall hold your cherished places…

— Charles Dickens

“But there have been times since, in my manhood, many times there have been, when I have thought, Is it possible, among…

— Charles Dickens

“My dear!” I remonstrated, in allusion to the epithet and the vigorous emphasis Miss Jellyby set upon it. “Your duty as a…

— Charles Dickens

It was a dagger in the haughty father's heart, an arrow in his brain, to see how the flesh and blood he…

— Charles Dickens

“He wouldn’t let his son have any name if he could take it from him,” returned the old lady. “Look at the…

— Charles Dickens

“Very well!' said Doyce. 'Then, if this young lady will do me the honour of regarding me for four-and-twenty hours in the…

— Charles Dickens

“Papa is a preferable mode of address,' observed Mrs General. 'Father is rather vulgar, my dear. The word Papa, besides, gives a…

— Charles Dickens

“What do I know, father,' said Louisa in her quiet manner, 'of tastes and fancies; of aspirations and affections; of all that…

— Charles Dickens

“I should like to ask you:-Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your mother's knee, seem…

— Charles Dickens

“Miss Manette!' The young lady, to whom all eyes had been turned before, and were now turned again, stood up where she…

— Charles Dickens

“When she (Miss Betsey - M. Zh.)reached the house she gave another proof of her identity. My father had often hinted that…

— Charles Dickens

As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were…

— Charles Dickens

“Mr Cobb would acquaint him, that when he was his age, his father thought no more of giving him a parental kick,…

— Charles Dickens

“An ugly woman, very poorly clothed, hurried in while I was glancing at them, and coming straight up to the mother, said,…

— Charles Dickens

“I believed, from the solitary and thoughtful way in which my mother murmured her song, that she was alone. And I went…

— Charles Dickens

“I should like to ask you: -- Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your mother's…

— Charles Dickens

“The same mistake presents itself to me, in one shape or other, at every turn,' said brother Charles. 'Parents who never showed…

— Charles Dickens

“. . . such a rush immediately ensued that she with laughing face and plundered dress was borne towards it the centre…

— Charles Dickens

“Why didn’t you ever go to school, Joe, when you were as little as me?’ ‘Well, Pip,’ said Joe, taking up the…

— Charles Dickens

“It was a maxim with Foxey- our revered father, gentlemen - 'Always suspect everybody.”

— Charles Dickens

Well," said my aunt, "this is his boy - his son. He would be as like his father as it's possible to…

— 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

“She did not replace my mother; no one could do that; but she came into a vacancy in my heart, which closed…

— Charles Dickens

“am the clearer for that,' he gasped to Clennam standing astonished. 'But upon my soul, to hear her father making speeches in…

— Charles Dickens