Words of wisdom Quotes by Charles Dickens

It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

— Charles Dickens

He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.

— Charles Dickens

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

— Charles Dickens

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

— Charles Dickens

“Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.”

— Charles Dickens

Lord, keep my memory green.

— Charles Dickens

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

— Charles Dickens

It is, as Mr. Rokesmith says, a matter of feeling, but Lor how many matters ARE matters of feeling!

— Charles Dickens

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

— Charles Dickens

Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?

— Charles Dickens

A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.

— Charles Dickens

It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change.

— Charles Dickens

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

— Charles Dickens

Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen…

— Charles Dickens

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

— Charles Dickens

The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

— 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

“But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.”

— Charles Dickens

I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you,…

— Charles Dickens

O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and…

— Charles Dickens

The plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to…

— Charles Dickens

I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I…

— Charles Dickens

The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule…

— Charles Dickens

There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride…

— Charles Dickens

We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea…

— 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

Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of…

— Charles Dickens

I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I…

— Charles Dickens

This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good…

— Charles Dickens

Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It…

— Charles Dickens

I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in…

— Charles Dickens

When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be…

— Charles Dickens

There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, flourishing his bread-and-cheese knife in the air, "in the human heart that had better not be…

— Charles Dickens

It's not put into his head to be buried. It's put into his head to be made useful. You hold your life…

— 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

Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

— Charles Dickens

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely…

— Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast…

— Charles Dickens

There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs…

— Charles Dickens