World Quotes by Charles Dickens

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

— Charles Dickens

What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!

— Charles Dickens

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

— Charles Dickens

This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

— Charles Dickens

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

— Charles Dickens

The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

— Charles Dickens

The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.

— Charles Dickens

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!

— Charles Dickens

Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats…

— Charles Dickens

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

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And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is,…

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It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but…

— Charles Dickens

The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings.

— Charles Dickens

the dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be…

— Charles Dickens

Opening her eyes again, and seeing her husband's face across the table, she leaned forward to give it a pat on the…

— Charles Dickens

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

— Charles Dickens

If you will take me for your wife, Walter, I will love you dearly. If you will let me go with you,…

— Charles Dickens

I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself…

— 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

I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud,…

— Charles Dickens

In this way they went on, and on, and on-in the language of the story-books-until at last the village lights appeared before…

— Charles Dickens

There was no wind; there was no passing shadow on the deep shade of the night; there was no noise. The city…

— Charles Dickens

And the voices in the waves are always whispering to Florence, in their ceaseless murmuring, of love - of love, eternal and…

— Charles Dickens

He had a certain air of being a handsome man-which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man-which…

— Charles Dickens

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

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And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his…

— Charles Dickens

'I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in…

— 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

The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness…

— 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

How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited,…

— Charles Dickens

If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitious man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in…

— Charles Dickens

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

— Charles Dickens

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to the world!

— Charles Dickens

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

— Charles Dickens

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

— Charles Dickens

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

— Charles Dickens

'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

— Charles Dickens

“We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on.…

— 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