Books Quote 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…

— Charles Dickens

... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a…

— Charles Dickens

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

— 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…

— Charles Dickens

A new heart for a New Year, always!

— 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…

— 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.”

— Charles Dickens

There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.

— 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…

— Charles Dickens

“Besides which, all that I could have said of the Story to any purpose, I had endeavoured to say in it.”

— 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;…

— 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…

— Charles Dickens