All Charles Dickens Quotes
- Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead Black
- Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound… Cardinal
- I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going. . . . My mother is likewise a very 'umble person. We live in… Abode
- So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of the… All
- Philosophers are only men in armor after all. All
- To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly.… Act
- All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his… Alarming
- And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which… Been
- Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape. Bound
- ....that the mounds of ices, and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of… Afterwards
- Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness… All
- He did each single thing as if he did nothing else. Commitment
- Have you ever had the sensation of looking at someone for the first time and ever so quickly the past and future seem to fuse… Deeply
- Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats to the work. Coats
- I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to… Believe
- Let me feel now what sharp distress I may. Distress
- We never tire of the friendships we form with books. Book
- I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the reading, more than… Believe
- "It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon." Broken
- Never sign a valentine with your own name. Inspirational
- We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done… Age
- The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions or opinions, and… All
- One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust . . .… America
- Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. Bodies
- We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure. Accident