Time Quotes by Charles Dickens

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

— Charles Dickens

Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.

— Charles Dickens

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

— Charles Dickens

“In this brief life our ours, it is sad to do almost anything for the last time.”

— Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

— Charles Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

— Charles Dickens

Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

— Charles Dickens

“You comfort me so much! I am so ignorant. Am I to kiss you now? Is the moment come?”

— Charles Dickens

Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his…

— Charles Dickens

“In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected." (…

— Charles Dickens

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I…

— Charles Dickens

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

— Charles Dickens

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate…

— Charles Dickens

Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.

— Charles Dickens

There were times when he could not read the face he had studied so long, and when this lonely girl was a…

— Charles Dickens

My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic…

— Charles Dickens

“Again the mender of roads went through the whole performance; in which he ought to have been perfect by that time, seeing…

— Charles Dickens

It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out…

— Charles Dickens

I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp…

— Charles Dickens

“Well! It was only their love for me, I know very well, and it is a long time ago. I must write…

— Charles Dickens

“I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!” Scrooge repeated, as he scrambled out of bed. “The Spirits of…

— Charles Dickens

“It was considered at the time a striking proof of virtue in the young king that he was sorry for his father's…

— 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

Have you ever had the sensation of looking at someone for the first time and ever so quickly the past and future…

— Charles Dickens

“But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its…

— 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

“The pony having thoroughly satisfied himself as to the nature and properties of the fireplug, looked into the air after his old…

— Charles Dickens

“In these times, when so wide a gulf has opened between the rich and the poor, which, instead of narrowing, as all…

— Charles Dickens

“I wish with all my soul I had been better guided! I wish with all my soul I could guide myself better!…

— Charles Dickens

We will wait," answered little Alice, taking Nettie's hand in hers, and looking up to the sky, "we will wait - ever…

— Charles Dickens

Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself…

— Charles Dickens

“There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say, 'Christmas among…

— Charles Dickens

“And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment. How many families, whose members…

— Charles Dickens

“Most of our readers will remember, that, until within a very few years past, there was a kind of iron cage in…

— Charles Dickens

“There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,' returned the…

— Charles Dickens

“The purpose was, that I would go to Biddy, that I would show her how humbled and repentant I came back, that…

— Charles Dickens

“For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. If my career were of that better kind that there…

— Charles Dickens

“Old Time heaved a moldy sigh from tomb and arch and vault; and gloomy shadows began to deepen in corners; and damps…

— Charles Dickens

“They said of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefullest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that…

— Charles Dickens

“For the first time the Doctor felt, now, that his suffering was strength and power. For the first time he felt that…

— Charles Dickens