Psychology Quotes by Charles Dickens

“How slight a thing will disturb the equanimity of our frail minds!”

— Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

— Charles Dickens

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

— Charles Dickens

If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.

— Charles Dickens

“Bear in mind then, that Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.”

— Charles Dickens

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

— Charles Dickens

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

— Charles Dickens

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

— Charles Dickens

“But what I cannot settle in my mind is that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I…

— Charles Dickens

She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined…

— Charles Dickens

The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere,…

— Charles Dickens

“I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or…

— Charles Dickens

... As to sleep, you know, I never sleep now. I might be a Watchman, except that I don't get any pay,…

— Charles Dickens

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in…

— Charles Dickens

“Although to restless and ardent minds, morning may be the fitting season for exertion and activity, it is not always at that…

— Charles Dickens

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

— Charles Dickens

The nephew revenges himself for this, by holding his breath and terrifying his kinswoman with the dread belief that he has made…

— Charles Dickens

“Mrs General had no opinions. Her way of forming a mind was to prevent it from forming opinions. She had a little…

— Charles Dickens

I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little.…

— Charles Dickens

One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust…

— Charles Dickens

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is…

— Charles Dickens

The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you…

— Charles Dickens

“All the passengers are very dismal, and seem to have tremendous secrets weighing on their minds. There is no conversation, no laughter,…

— Charles Dickens

We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to…

— Charles Dickens

“I made a proposal to Peepy, in default of being able to do anything better for him, that he should let me…

— Charles Dickens

“Mr. Blotton, indeed—and the name will be doomed to the undying contempt of those who cultivate the mysterious and the sublime—Mr. Blotton,…

— Charles Dickens

“My Dear Mrs Winter. (I had half a mind when I dipped my pen in the ink, to address you by your…

— Charles Dickens

“Theologically Christmas Day is the greatest occasion for rejoicing offered to sinful mankind; but this aspect of it is so august and…

— Charles Dickens

“Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused—in whose mind…

— Charles Dickens

I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can…

— Charles Dickens

Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last.…

— Charles Dickens

“Mr F.'s Aunt, who had eaten her pie with great solemnity, and who had been elaborating some grievous scheme of injury in…

— Charles Dickens

If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was…

— Charles Dickens

This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a…

— Charles Dickens

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the…

— Charles Dickens

We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing…

— Charles Dickens

“[...] certain it is that minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort, and…

— Charles Dickens

…that the mounds of ices, and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to…

— Charles Dickens

“It's the whole point of the thing, you know—that, and leaving the business to take care of itself, as it seems to…

— Charles Dickens

You are always training yourself to be, mind and body, as clear as crystal, and you always are, and never change; whereas…

— Charles Dickens