Charles Dickens Quotes

"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature."
-Charles Dickens

"So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise."
-Charles Dickens

"Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort."
-Charles Dickens

"I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together. "
-Charles Dickens

"It is a far, far better thing that I do now, then I have ever done before... it is a far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known before."
-Charles Dickens

"I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us."
-Charles Dickens

"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."
-Charles Dickens in Trees quotes.

"It is a far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
-Charles Dickens

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery."
-Charles Dickens in Money quotes.

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair . . . in short, the period was so far like the present period . . . ."
-Charles Dickens in Personality quotes.

"Accidents will occur in the best regulated families. "
-Charles Dickens

"A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!"
-Charles Dickens in Christmas quotes.

"Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."
-Charles Dickens

"No man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner."
-Charles Dickens

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."
-Charles Dickens

"A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper. "
-Charles Dickens

"Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are fatuous preservers of youthful looks."
-Charles Dickens

"There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth."
-Charles Dickens

"There were times when he could not read the face he had studied so long, and when this lonely girl was a greater mystery to him than any women of the world..."
-Charles Dickens

"Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day."
-Charles Dickens

"We need never be ashamed of our tears."
-Charles Dickens

"I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free."
-Charles Dickens

"Spring is the time of the year, when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade."
-Charles Dickens

"A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted."
-Charles Dickens

"With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other."
-Charles Dickens

"It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations."
-Charles Dickens