--- title: "12 Quiet Quotes By Charles Dickens" description: "12 Quiet quotes by Charles Dickens. Plus more from Charles Dickens and more Quiet sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/936/charles-dickens-34_life_anything-for-a-quiet-life-as-the-man-sai_588867.jpg" --- > [“Anything for a quiet life; as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/anything-for-a-quiet-life-as-the-man-said-when-he-took-the-situation/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/936/charles-dickens-34_life_anything-for-a-quiet-life-as-the-man-sai_588867.jpg) > [In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/in-every-life-no-matter-how-full-or-empty-ones-purse-there-is-tragedy/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/207/charles-dickens-34_add_in-every-life-no-matter-how-full-or-empt_1379835.jpg) > [We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/we-were-equals-afterwards-as-we-had-been-before-but-afterwards-at/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a5/charles-dickens-34_conscious_we-were-equals-afterwards-as-we-had-been_3047001.jpg) > [A tranquil summer sunset shone upon him as he approached the end of his walk, and passed through the meadows by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/a-tranquil-summer-sunset-shone-upon-him-as-he-approached-the-end-of/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d3/charles-dickens-34_breasts_a-tranquil-summer-sunset-shone-upon-him_2745262.jpg) > [She was too intent upon her work, and too earnest in what she said, and too composed and quiet altogether, to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/she-was-too-intent-upon-her-work-and-too-earnest-in-what-she-said-and/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae3/charles-dickens-34_character_she-was-too-intent-upon-her-work-and-too_1161790.jpg) > [Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/happy-happy-christmas-that-can-win-us-back-to-the-delusions-of-our-2/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14b/charles-dickens-34_childhood_happy-happy-christmas-that-can-win-us-ba_3064168.jpg) > [He lowered the window, and looked out at the rising sun. There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/he-lowered-the-window-and-looked-out-at-the-rising-sun-there-was-a/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac6/charles-dickens-34_beautiful_he-lowered-the-window-and-looked-out-at_21719.jpg) > ['I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/i-believe-mr-snitchey-said-alfred-there-are-quiet-victories-and/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91f/charles-dickens-34_achieve_i-believe-mr-snitchey-said-alfred-there_1266457.jpg) > [But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/but-the-moon-came-slowly-up-in-all-her-gentle-glory-and-the-stars/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8db/charles-dickens-34_compass_but-the-moon-came-slowly-up-in-all-her-g_135278.jpg) > [I don't remember forms or faces now, but I know the girl was beautiful. I know she was; for in the bright…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/i-don-t-remember-forms-or-faces-now-but-i-know-the-girl-was-beautiful/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d30/charles-dickens-34_beautiful_i-don-t-remember-forms-or-faces-now-but_2774628.jpg) > [The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer's morning, is most striking even to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/the-appearance-presented-by-the-streets-of-london-an-hour-before/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca2/charles-dickens-34_accustomed_the-appearance-presented-by-the-streets_2603326.jpg) > [Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/father-time-is-not-always-a-hard-parent-and-though-he-tarries-for/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f8/charles-dickens-34_age_father-time-is-not-always-a-hard-parent_746635.jpg) ## Other authors on Quiet ## 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/quiet/charles-dickens/#itemlist", "name": "12 Quiet Quotes By Charles Dickens", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Anything for a quiet life; as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Dickens" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/anything-for-a-quiet-life-as-the-man-said-when-he-took-the-situation/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/936/charles-dickens-34_life_anything-for-a-quiet-life-as-the-man-sai_588867.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/936/charles-dickens-34_life_anything-for-a-quiet-life-as-the-man-sai_588867.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/936/charles-dickens-34_life_anything-for-a-quiet-life-as-the-man-sai_588867.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Anything for a quiet life; as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.” — Charles Dickens", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. 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