People Quotes by Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

— Charles Dickens

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

— Charles Dickens

“Some people are nobody's enemies but their own, yer know.”

— Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

— Charles Dickens

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

— Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

— Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

— Charles Dickens

People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are

— Charles Dickens

Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.

— Charles Dickens

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to…

— Charles Dickens

I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were,…

— Charles Dickens

He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have…

— Charles Dickens

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when…

— Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who…

— Charles Dickens

Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a…

— Charles Dickens

Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt…

— Charles Dickens

If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to…

— Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a…

— Charles Dickens

It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but…

— Charles Dickens

it's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other…

— Charles Dickens

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in…

— Charles Dickens

People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's…

— Charles Dickens

Fog everywhere. Fog up the river where it flows among green airs and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled…

— Charles Dickens

Mrs. Lammle's manner changed under the poor silly girl's embraces, and she turned extremely pale: directing one appealing look, first to Mrs.…

— Charles Dickens

And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his…

— Charles Dickens

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down…

— Charles Dickens

I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be…

— Charles Dickens

What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of…

— 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

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's…

— Charles Dickens

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

— Charles Dickens

The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to…

— Charles Dickens

Nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset;…

— Charles Dickens

It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly…

— Charles Dickens

I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that…

— Charles Dickens

It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to…

— Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and…

— Charles Dickens

To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think…

— Charles Dickens

You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away.…

— Charles Dickens

There are people enough to tread upon me in my lowly state, without my doing outrage to their feelings by possessing learning.…

— Charles Dickens