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# Charles Dickens Info

The life and work of Charles Dickens

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- [Home](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/) - Charles Dickens (1812 - 870) wrote Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol and more. Charles and his wife had 10 children.
- [The Staplehurst Railway Accident](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/life/staplehurst-railway-accident/) - In 1865, the Staplehurst Railway Accident nearly cost Charles Dickens his life. A train track was being repaired, leaving a gap in the tracks over a bridge.
- [Gad's Hill Place](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/life/gads-hill-place/) - When Charles Dickens was 9, he and his father took a walk. They passed a house called Gad's Hill Place. 35 years later Dickens bought Gad's Hill Place.
- [Privacy Statement](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/about-us/privacy-statement/) - Charles Dickens Info has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy.
- [Drood](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/and-more/drood/) - This work of historical fiction starts with the Staplehurst railway accident. Then Dan Simmons adds a little something to the mix. That something is named Drood.
- [Oliver Twist Quiz](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/games/oliver-twist-quiz/) - How familiar are you with Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens? Take this 10-question quiz to find out.
- [David Copperfield Quiz](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/games/david-copperfield-matching-quiz/) - Take this David Copperfield quiz and see how well you know the novel. Who was sent to debtors prison? Who had a dog named Jip? Test your knowledge!
- [David Copperfield](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/david-copperfield/) - David Copperfield was the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. It was first published in 1849. David Copperfield contains many autobiographical elements.
- [Dombey and Son Jigsaw Puzzle](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/games/dombey-and-son-picture-scramble/) - Dombey and Son Jigsaw Puzzle - “They were the strangest pair at such a time that ever firelight shone upon."
- [A Christmas Carol Jigsaw Puzzle](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/games/christmas-carol-picture-scramble/) - A Christmas Carol Jigsaw Puzzle - Online Jigsaw Puzzle - So Martha hid herself, and in came little Bob, the father . . . and Tiny Tim upon his shoulder
- [The Pickwick Papers Crossword Puzzle](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/games/pickwick-crossword-puzzle/) - Test your knowledge of Dickens's beloved comic masterpiece with our interactive Pickwick Papers crossword puzzle!
- [Charles Dickens Resources and Bibliography](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/charles-dickens-links-and-resources/) - Bibliography for this website. There is also a list of books and sites about Charles Dickens. Additionally, this page includes a list of other literary websites.
- [The Pickwick Papers Characters](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/pickwick-papers/character-list-for-the-pickwick-papers/) - This list of The Pickwick Papers characters includes Samuel Pickwick, Alfred Jingle, Sam Weller, Augustus Snodgrass, Tracy Tupman, Mr. Wardle and more.
- [The Pickwick Papers and Sleep Apnea - Charles Dickens](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/pickwick-papers/the-pickwick-papers-and-sleep-apnea-charles-dickens/) - Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome (OHS), a condition related to sleep apnea, was first called Pickwickian Syndrome.
- [The Pickwick Papers](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/pickwick-papers/) - The Pickwick Papers was the first novel by Charles Dickens. He addressed a serious subject in the comedic novel, that of the injustice of the justice system.
- [Barnaby Rudge](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/barnaby-rudge/) - Barnaby Rudge was one of Dickens’ earliest conceived novels, reflecting his independence and its themes of strained father–son relationships.
- [Random Charles Dickens Quote](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes2/random-dickens-quote/) - Check out the Charles Dickens random quote generator. See a quote randomly chosen from our collection of over 800 quotations by Charles Dickens.
- [Our Mutual Friend Characters](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/our-mutual-friend/characters/) - This list of Our Mutual Friend characters includes John Harmon, Bradley Headstone, Lizzie Hexam and more.
- [Charles Dickens and Henry Dodd](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/our-mutual-friend/charles-dickens-and-henry-dodd/) - Learn about the relationship between Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, the "Golden Dustman" of London and the Thames Sailing Barge Match.
- [Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/our-mutual-friend/) - Learn about Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens. It's the last novel that Dickens completed before his death! Plus learn about the "dust" business.
- [Bleak House](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/bleak-house/) - Bleak House by Charles Dickens was the 9th novel of Charles Dickens. Published in installments from 1852 -1853, it deals with the British Court of Chancery.
- [Life](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/life/) - See our extensive list of articles on little-known aspects of the life of Charles Dickens. View a timeline of his life and more.
- [Work](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/) - We have information about all of Dickens's novels. You can also learn about A Christmas Carol, Dickens's pen name (Boz), his fight for copyright laws and more.
- [Games](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/games/) - We hope you enjoy this collection of games, quizzes and puzzles based on the life and work of Charles Dickens.
- [Oliver Twist Characters](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/oliver-twist/whos-who/) - Here's an alphabetical list of Oliver Twist characters. The list includes the Artful Dodger, Mr. Sowerberry, Nancy, Bill Sikes, Fagin and more.
- [Bleak House Characters](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/bleak-house/whos-who/) - This list of Bleak House characters is presented in alphabetical order. The list includes Richard Carstone, Captain Hawdon, Tulkinghorn and more.
- [What We Can Learn from Charles Dickens](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/life/learn-from-charles-dickens/) - I created a site about Charles Dickens because of something remarkable in his early life. It’s one of the things that inspires me about his story.
- [Charles Dickens Biography](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/life/biography/) - This Charles Dickens biography explores the life of one of the greatest authors of the Victorian era. Discover the lesser-known details of Dickens' s journey.
- [Placing a Value on Old Books](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/value-old-books/) - How do people determine the value of old or rare books? Here's some information and resources.
- [Charles Dickens and Mesmerism](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/life/mesmerism/) - Charles Dickens and mesmerism played a vital role when John Leech, the illustrator for A Christmas Carol, was injured. Via mesmerism, Dickens helped his friend.
- [Charles Dickens Crossword Puzzle Answers](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/games/charles-dickens-crossword-puzzle/charles-dickens-crossword-puzzle-answers/) - Do a Dickens-themed crossword puzzle at Charles Dickens Gad's Hill Place
- [Charles Dickens Crossword Puzzle](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/games/charles-dickens-crossword-puzzle/) - Do a Dickens-themed crossword puzzle. Fun!
- [The Pickwick Papers Crossword Puzzle Answers](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/games/pickwick-crossword-puzzle/pickwick-crossword-puzzle-answers/) - Do the Pickwick Papers crossword puzzle at Charles Dickens Info
- [Our Mutual Friend Crossword Puzzle](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/games/our-mutual-friend-crossword-puzzle/) - Riddle me this, what's the last novel that Dickens ever completed? If you answered Our Mutual Friend, you're correct. You also may have the answers to the crossword puzzle based on Our Mutual Friend.
- [Oliver Twist](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/oliver-twist/) - Oliver Twist was the second novel by Charles Dickens. In the novel, Dickens attacks the New Poor Law of 1834. The system had serious flaws.
- [A Tale of Two Cities Characters](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/tale-two-cities/whos-who/) - This list of A Tale of Two Cities characters includes Sydney Carlton, Charles Darnay, Jerry Cruncher, Lucie Manette, Doctor Alexandre Manette and more.
- [A Tale of Two Cities](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/tale-two-cities/) - A Tale of Two Cities is the twelfth novel of Charles Dickens. Learn about Dickens's life at the time, the French Revolution and the inspiration for the novel.
- [Dombey and Son](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/dombey-and-son/) - Dombey and Son, Dickens's seventh novel, deals with the topic of feminism. The novel shows what happens when Dombey has a daughter instead of the desired son.
- [About Charles Dickens Info](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/about-us/) - This site focuses on the life and work of Charles Dickens. The website is being constantly updated so it's best to use the retrieval date as the citation date.
- [Friends of Charles Dickens](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/life/friends/) - Dickens was a social man and had many friendships. This included Wilkie Collins, John Forster, William Makepeace Thackeray, Edgar Allan Poe and more.
- [Maria Beadnell](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/life/maria-beadnell/) - Maria Beadnell was the first love of Charles Dickens. For Charles it was love at first sight. His mind was quickly filled with thoughts of everlasting romance and marriage. Sadly, the romance didn't go as Dickens hoped.
- [Inspector Francis J. Dickens](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/life/inspector-francis-j-dickens/) - Learn about Inspector Francis J. Dickens, the son of Charles Dickens who joined the Canadian Mounted Police.
- [Bonfire at Gad's Hill Place](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/life/bonfire-gads-hill-place/) - In September of 1860 Charles Dickens gathered "the accumulated letters and papers of twenty years" and set them ablaze in his backyard. Did the bonfire mark a turning point in his life or was he trying to cover his tracks?
- [The Children of Charles Dickens](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/life/dickens-children/) - Charles Dickens had ten children. Learn about each of them from the eldest went bankrupt to the youngest who became a Member of Parliament in New South Wales.
- [The Childhood of Charles Dickens](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/life/childhood/) - Life was not easy for young Charles Dickens. Learn about his childhood, his dreams of being a gentleman as well as tales of Captain Murderer!
- [Charles Dickens Timeline](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/life/timeline/) - Here's a list of facts, events and dates in the life of Charles Dickens. The Charles Dickens timeline also includes information about the era.
- [The Old Curiosity Shop Characters](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/old-curiosity-shop/whos-who/) - This list of The Old Curiosity Shop characters includes Daniel Quilp, Nelly Trent (Little Nell), Dick Swiveller, Sally Bass, Grandfather, Fred Trent and more.
- [The Old Curiosity Shop](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/old-curiosity-shop/) - Charles Dickens was traumatized by the death of Little Nell, in The Old Curiosity Shop. He felt as though he were experiencing the death of one of his children.
- [Nicholas Nickleby Characters](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/nicholas-nickleby/whos-who/) - This list of Nicholas Nickleby characters includes Smike, Newman Noggs, Wackford Squeers, the Cheeryble brothers, Madeline Bray, the Nickleby family and more.
- [Nicholas Nickleby](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/nicholas-nickleby/) - Nicholas Nickleby was the third novel of Charles Dickens. One of his goals in writing the novel was to expose the ugly truth about Yorkshire boarding schools.
- [The Mystery of Edwin Drood](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/mystery-edwin-drood/) - The Mystery of Edwin Drood was the fifteenth novel of Charles Dickens. He died before he completed the novel. No one knows how he would have ended the story.
- [Martin Chuzzlewit](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/martin-chuzzlewit/) - Martin Chuzzlewit was written after Dickens traveled to America in 1842. The United States left quite an impression on Dickens, a very unfavorable impression.
- [Little Dorrit Characters](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/little-dorrit/little-dorrit-characters/) - This list of Little Dorrit characters includes Amy Dorrit, Arthur Clennam, Mr. Merdle, Jeremiah Flintwinch, Mr. Pancks, Fanny Dorrit, John Chivery and more.
- [Little Dorrit](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/little-dorrit/) - Little Dorrit was the 11th novel of Charles Dickens. The novel was published in installments from December of 1855 through June of 1857.
- [Hard Times Characters](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/hard-times/characters/) - This list of Hard Times characters includes Stephen Blackpool, Josiah Bounderby, Thomas Gradgrind, Louisa Gradgrind, James Harthouse and more.
- [Hard Times](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/hard-times/) - Hard Times was Dickens's tenth novel. It was first published in installments that began in April of 1854 and ran through August of that year.
- [Great Expectations Quiz](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/games/great-expectations-quiz/) - Who raised Pip? Where does Miss Havisham live? In short, just how familiar are you with Pip and his adventures? Take our quiz.
- [Great Expectations Characters](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/great-expectations/whos-who/) - This list of Great Expectations characters includes Pip, Compeyson, Joe, Estella, Miss Havisham, Abel Magwitch, Herbert Pocket and more.
- [Great Expectations](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/great-expectations/) - In Great Expectations Pip, like Dickens himself, dreams of becoming a gentleman. During the novel Pip realizes there is more to life than wealth and station.
- [Dombey and Son Characters](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/dombey-and-son/whos-who/) - This list of Dombey and Son characters is presented in alphabetical order and includes Captain Cuttle, Florence Dombey and more.
- [David Copperfield Characters](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/david-copperfield/whos-who/) - This list of David Copperfield characters is presented in alphabetical order. The list includes Dora Spenlow, Clara Peggotty, Barkis and more.
- [Barnaby Rudge Characters](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/barnaby-rudge/characters/) - This list of Barnaby Rudge characters includes Barnaby Rudge, Dolly Varden, John Willet, Joe Willet, Emma Haredale, Edward Chester, Lord George Gordon and more.
- [Psychological Evaluation of Scrooge](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/christmas-carol/psychological-evaluation-scrooge/) - Say that you have a very crabby uncle. One day he says he saw four ghosts. Now he's a changed man! What would you do? You might take him to a psychologist.
- [A Christmas Carol Quiz](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/games/christmas-carol-quiz/) - We hope you enjoy this A Christmas Carol Quiz! How familiar are you with A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens? Take our quick, 10-question quiz to find out.
- [A Christmas Carol Trivia](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/christmas-carol/trivia/) - How long did it take Dickens to write A Christmas Carol? Why did Dickens describe Marley being as dead a door-nail? Learn the answers to these questions.
- [A Christmas Carol Characters](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/christmas-carol/characters-from-a-christmas-carol/) - This list of A Christmas Carol characters includes Ebenezer Scrooge, Fezziwig, the Cratchit family, Jacob Marley, Belle, Fred, three Christmas ghosts and more.
- [A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/christmas-carol/) - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens was published in 1843. Dickens, through the voice of Scrooge, continues to urge us to honor Christmas in our hearts.
- [Charles Dickens and Copyright Laws](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/life/copyright-laws/) - Copyright laws are big news today, but they were also an issue in Dickens's time. Learn about his fight for international copyright regulations.
- [Ask Scrooge a Yes or No Question](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/games/ask-scrooge-question/) - Are you mulling over a yes or no question? Then you've come to the right place. Ebenezer Scrooge is here to help! Enter your question and see what Scrooge says.
- [Daily Charles Dickens Quote - The Daily Dose of Dickens](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes2/daily-dose-dickens/) - Daily Charles Dickens quote! Delve into the work of Charles Dickens, the celebrated English novelist and social critic, with the Daily Dose of Dickens.
- [Bleak House Picture Scramble](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/games/bleak-house-picture-scramble/) - Bleak House Picture Scramble - Press the shuffle button and watch the picture become scrambled. See if you can put it back together. Click a piece next to the blank space and watch it move into the blank space.
- [Disclosure Policy](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/disclosure-policy/) - The Purpose of Charles Dickens Info Last Updated on November 22, 2023 This site focuses on the life and work of Charles Dickens. In addition to articles on little-known aspects of the author’s life, it features one of the largest collections of sourced Dickens quotes on the web. You can read my article, What We
- [Hard Times Quiz](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/games/hard-times-quiz/) - Where does the novel Hard Times take place? What’s the name of the Gradgrind family home? Just how familiar you are with Hard Times by Charles Dickens?
- [A Tale of Two Cities Quiz](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/games/tale-of-two-cities-quiz/) - How familiar are you with the characters from A Tale of Two Cities? Take this online quiz to find out.
- [Dickens Character Match Quiz](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/games/dickens-character-match-quiz/) - Just how familiar are you with the work of Charles Dickens? Match each character with the proper novel in this ten-question quiz.
- [List of Books, Novels and Short Stories by Charles Dickens](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/complete-works/) - This a Charles Dickens book list includes novels, novellas and short stories. The 15 Charles Dickens novels are listed in order of publication.
- [Charles Dickens Quiz - The Novels of Charles Dickens](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/games/charles-dickens-first-lines/) - How familiar are you with the work of Charles Dickens? Take this 10-question quiz to find out. Match opening lines to the right Charles Dickens story.
- [Law Clerk, Journalist, Actor - The Other Careers of Charles Dickens](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/life/law-clerk-journalist/) - Learn about the jobs that Dickens had before he became an author and other careers that he contemplated. Other careers? Yes, it's true! The author of A Christmas Carol worked as a law clerk and thought about being an actor.
- [Gad's Hill Place Picture Scramble](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/games/gads-hill-place-picture-scramble/) - Gad's Hill Place Picture Scramble
- [Oliver Twist Picture Scramble](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/games/oliver-twist-picture-scramble/) - “Oliver Twist has asked for more!” - Have fun with the Oliver Twist picture scramble.
- [Charles Dickens Quotes by Topic](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes2/topic/) - Our collection of over 800 quotes by Charles Dickens is divided into different topics and themes There are love quotes, money quotes, spooky quotes and more.
- [Newsletter](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/newsletter/) - Signing up for the monthly newsletter is a great way to stay informed about this site’s new features and other events relating to Charles Dickens.
- [Browse Charles Dickens Quotes](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes2/browse/) - Browse through the entire quotation collection at Charles Dickens Info. At over 800 quotes this is one of the largest Dickens quote collections on the web!
- [Quotes](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes2/) - Charles Dickens quotes by topic or title! Our quotation database contains more than 800 quotes by Dickens All quotes are sourced and verified.
- [Charles Dickens Quotes by Title](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes2/title/) - View Charles Dickens quotes from a specific quote or story. Our quotation collection contains over 800 quotes by Dickens.
- [Book Review - This House is Haunted by John Boyne](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/and-more/book-review-this-house-is-haunted-by-john-boyne/) - While the novel isn't about Dickens, his name comes up frequently. And those of you that like Dickens's style of writing are sure to adore this scary tale.
- [Book Reviews](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/book-reviews/) - Reviews of books relating to Charles Dickens
- [Boz](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/novels/boz/) - In December 1833, Charles Dickens's first literary effort was published. Other sketches soon followed. Dickens wanted a memorable pen name.
- [And More](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/and-more/) - Learn About Us and More Dickens Resources
- [Books About the Victorian Era](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/and-more/books-about-the-victorian-era/) - How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life From waking up to the rapping of a “knocker-upper man” on the window pane to lacing into a corset after a round of calisthenics, from slipping opium to the little ones to finally retiring to the bedroom for the ideal combination of “love, consideration,
- [Books About Charles Dickens](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/and-more/books-about-charles-dickens/) - Books about Charles Dickens
- [The Marriage of Charles Dickens](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/life/marriage/) - A man orders a bracelet for his mistress. Instead it's sent to his home and his wife finds it. This isn't fiction. It really happened to Charles Dickens.

## Quotes

- [It was the best of times, it was the worst of times](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-was-the-best-of/) - It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of ...- quote from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- [Idiots Talk of Energy](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/then-idiots-talk-said-eugene/) - "Then idiots talk," said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, "of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy." ~ Our Mutual Friend
- [A heart that never hardens](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/a-heart-that-never-hardens/) - Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. ~ Our Mutual Friend
- [It was on one of those mornings](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-was-on-one-of/) - It was on one of those mornings, common in early spring, when the year, fickle and changeable in its youth like all other created things, is undecided whether to step backward into winter or forward into summer. ~ Barnaby Rudge
- [We must leave the discovery of this mystery](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/we-must-leave-the-discovery/) - "We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven’s pleasure." ~ Barnaby Rudge
- [There Are Some Upon This](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-are-some-upon-this/) - "There are some upon this earth of yours," returned the Spirit, "who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and
- [Quiet Victories and Struggles](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-believe-mr-snitchey-said/) - "I believe, Mr. Snitchey," said Alfred, "there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it - even in many of its apparent lightnesses and contradictions - not the less difficult to achieve, because they have no earthly chronicle or audience - done every day in nooks and
- [If our affections be tried](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/if-our-affections-be-tried/) - "If our affections be tried, our affections are our consolation and comfort; and memory, however sad, is the best and purest link between this world and a better." ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- [A Skillful Flatterer](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/although-a-skilful-flatterer/) - Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion, if you can keep him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- [Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/mens-courses-will-foreshadow-certain/) - "Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me!" ~ A Christmas Carol
- [The Education of Mr. Jonas](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-education-of-mr-jonas/) - The education of Mr. Jonas had been conducted from his cradle on the strictest principles of the main chance. The very first word he learnt to spell was "gain" and the second (when he got into two syllables), "money". ~ Martin Chuzzlewit
- [Blunt tools are sometimes found](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/blunt-tools-are-sometimes-found/) - "Blunt tools are sometimes found of use, where sharper instruments would fail." ~ Barnaby Rudge
- [The Cottage of Content](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/miss-mills-replied-on-general/) - Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was. ~ David Copperfield
- [For it is good](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/for-it-is-good-to/) - For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself. ~ A Christmas Carol
- [Everybody Said So](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/everybody-said-so-far-be/) - Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right. ~ The Haunted Man
- [I Don't Remember Forms](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-dont-remember-forms-or/) - "I don't remember forms or faces now, but I know the girl was beautiful. I know she was; for in the bright moonlight nights, when I start from my sleep, and all is quiet about me, I see, standing still and motionless in one corner of this cell, a slight and wasted figure with long
- [Some Happy Talent](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/some-happy-talent-and-some/) - Some happy talent, and some fortunate opportunity, may form the two sides of the ladder on which some men mount, but the rounds of that ladder must be made of stuff to stand wear and tear; and there is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent, and sincere earnestness. ~ David Copperfield
- [She's Full On](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/would-you-do-you-my/) - "Would you, do you, my dear?" rejoined the Captain . . . . "I don't know. It's difficult navigation. She's very hard to carry on with, my dear. You never can tell how she'll head, you see. She's full one minute, and round upon you next." ~ Dombey and Son
- [I didn’t say I understood](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-didnt-say-i-understood/) - "I didn’t say I understood her. I wouldn’t have the presumption to say that of any woman." ~ Barnaby Rudge
- [In the Destroyer's Steps](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/in-the-destroyers-steps-there/) - In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven. ~ The Old Curiosity Shop
- [The Capacity for Good or Evil](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-is-known-to-the/) - It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse, at any single
- [Mr. and Mrs. Pocket's children...](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-saw-that-mr-and/) - I saw that Mr. and Mrs. Pocket's children were not growing up or being brought up, but were tumbling up. ~ Great Expectations
- [Long Hard Time](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-was-a-long-hard/) - "There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth. " ~ Great Expectations
- [It is a fair, even-handed](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-is-a-fair-even-handed/) - It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour. ~ A Christmas Carol
- ["Business!" cried the Ghost](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/business-cried-the-ghost-wringing/) - "Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!" ~ A Christmas Carol
- [No Such Thing as Display](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/no-such-thing-as-display/) - If there were no such thing as display in the world, my private opinion is, and I hope you agree with me, that we might get on a great deal better than we do, and might be infinitely more agreeable company than we are.
- [It Was One of Those March Days](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-was-one-of-those-2/) - It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. ~ Great Expectations
- [Mrs. Boffin and Me](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/mrs-boffin-and-me-maam/) - "Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything." ~ Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
- [The Sun Himself is Weak](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-sun-himself-is-weak/) - The Sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on. ~ The Old Curiosity Shop
- [A delicate Creature](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/always-a-delicate-creature-whom/) - "Always a delicate creature, whom a breath might have withered," said the Ghost. "But she had a large heart!" ~ A Christmas Carol
- [Rare Sort of Old Girl](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/rare-sort-of-old-girl/) - Being that rare sort of old girl that she receives Good to her arms without a hint that it might be Better and catches light from any little spot of darkness near her. ~ Bleak House
- [Death of Each Day's Hope](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/from-the-death-of-each/) - From the death of each day's hope another hope sprung up to live to-morrow. ~ The Old Curiosity Shop
- [The Voices in the Waves](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/and-the-voices-in-the/) - And the voices in the waves are always whispering to Florence, in their ceaseless murmuring, of love - of love, eternal and illimitable, not bounded by the confines of this world, or by the end of time, but ranging still, beyond the sea, beyond the sky, to the invisible country far away! ~ Dombey and
- [Injustice Breeds Injustice](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/injustice-breeds-injustice/) - But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat. ~ Bleak House
- [Obligations of Home](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/we-thought-that-perhaps/) - "We thought that, perhaps," said I, hesitating, "it is right to begin with the obligations of home, sir; and that, perhaps, while those are overlooked and neglected, no other duties can possibly be substituted for them." ~ Bleak House
- [You Have No Idea](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/you-have-no-idea-what/) - You have no idea what it is to have anybody wonderful fond of you, unless you have been got down and rolled upon by the lonely feelings that I have mentioned as having once got the better of me. ~ Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions
- [The Office is One Thing](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/no-the-office-is-one/) - "No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me." ~ Great Expectations
- [A silent look of affection](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/a-silent-look-of-affection/) - A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away--the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us--is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow. ~ The Pickwick Papers
- [The Dance at Little Dorrit's Party](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/at-last-in-the-dead/) - At last, in the dead of the night, when the street was very still indeed, Little Dorrit laid the heavy head upon her bosom, and soothed her to sleep. And thus she sat at the gate, as it were alone; looking up at the stars, and seeing the clouds pass over them in their wild
- [But for some trouble and sorrow](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/but-for-some-trouble-and/) - "I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us." ~ The Haunted Man
- [Gold, for the instant, lost](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/gold-for-the-instant-lost/) - Gold, for the instant, lost its lustre in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase. ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- [When I speak of home](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/when-i-speak-of-home/) - "When I speak of home, I speak of the place where -- in default of a better -- those I love are gathered together; and if that place were a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding." ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- [For your popular rumour](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/for-your-popular-rumour-unlike/) - For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down. ~ The Old Curiosity Shop
- [Oliver Twist has asked for more](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/oliver-twist-has-asked-for/) - "Oliver Twist has asked for more!" ~ Oliver Twist
- [Young and Fresh](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/young-and-fresh/) - The lady was not young and fresh from the hand of Nature, but was young and fresh from the hand of her maid. ~ Little Dorrit
- [There are talkers enough among us](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-are-talkers-enough-among/) - "There are talkers enough among us; I’ll be one of the doers." ~ Barnaby Rudge
- [Got Into Metaphysics](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/got-into-metaphysics/) - Mr. Parkes, finding himself in the position of having got into metaphysics without exactly seeing his way out of them, stammered forth an apology and retreated from the argument. ~ Barnaby Rudge
- [Patient Composure of Long Effort](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/patient-composure-of-long-effort/) - Any one who had bestowed but a casual glance on Barnaby might have known that this was his mother, from the strong resemblance between them; but where in his face there was wildness and vacancy, in hers there was the patient composure of long effort and quiet resignation. ~ Barnaby Rudge
- [Lying in Wait](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/lying-in-wait/) - He wore the aspect of a man who was always lying in wait for something that WOULDN’T come to pass. ~ Barnaby Rudge
- [The Great Commander](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-great-commander-who-seemed/) - The great commander, who seemed by expression of his visage to be always on the look-out for something in the extremest distance, and to have no ocular knowledge of anything within ten miles, made no reply whatever. ~ Dombey and Son
- [I Had Considered How the Things That Never Happen](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-had-considered-how-the/) - I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished. ~ David Copperfield
- [The dinner was as remarkable](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-dinner-was-as-remarkable/) - The dinner was as remarkable for the splendour and completeness of its appointments as the mansion itself, and the company were remarkable for doing it ample justice, in which respect Messrs Pyke and Pluck particularly signalised themselves; these two gentlemen eating of every dish, and drinking of every bottle, with a capacity and perseverance truly
- [Conscience Is an Elastic and Very Flexible Article](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/in-the-majority-of-cases/) - In the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article. ~ The Old Curiosity Shop
- ["Then spare my life for](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/then-spare-my-life-for/) - "Then spare my life for the love of Heaven, as I spared yours," rejoined the girl, clinging to him. "Bill, dear Bill, you cannot have the heart to kill me. Oh! think of all I have given up, only this one night, for you. You SHALL have time to think, and save yourself this crime;
- [You Could Draw Me to Fire](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/you-know-what-i-am/) - You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death
- [A Man Can Well Afford](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/a-man-can-well-afford/) - "A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!" ~ Martin Chuzzlewit
- [Why should I disguise](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/why-should-i-disguise/) - Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of prey; mere birds of prey. The only question is, whether in serving our own turn, we can serve yours too; whether in double-lining our own nest, we can put a single living into
- [He Ate Hard Eggs, Shell and All](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/he-ate-hard-eggs-shell-and-all/) - He ate hard eggs, shell and all, devoured gigantic prawns with the heads and tails on, chewed tobacco and water-cresses at the same time and with extraordinary greediness, drank boiling tea without winking, bit his fork and spoon till they bent again, and in short performed so many horrifying and uncommon acts that the women
- [NOW, what I want is, Facts.](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/now-what-i-want-is/) - "NOW, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which
- [It's an Old Habit of Mine](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/its-an-old-habit-of/) - "It's an old habit of mine, Wal'r," said the Captain, "any time these fifty year. When you see Ned Cuttle bite his nails, Wal'r, then you may know that Ned Cuttle's aground." ~ Dombey and Son
- [This Reminiscence Brought the Welsh Inns](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/this-reminiscence-brought-the-welsh/) - This reminiscence brought the Welsh Inns in general before me; with the women in their round hats, and the harpers with their white beards (venerable, but humbugs, I am afraid), playing outside the door while I took my dinner. The transition was natural to the Highland Inns, with the oatmeal bannocks, the honey, the venison
- [No One is Useless in this World](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/no-one-is-useless-in/) - "No one is useless in this world," retorted the Secretary, "who lightens the burden of it for any one else." ~ Our Mutual Friend
- [Happy, Happy Christmas](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/happy-happy-christmas-that-can/) - Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fireside and his quiet home! ~ The Pickwick Papers
- [raw beef-steak](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/raw-beef-steak/) - "Waiter! raw beef-steak for the gentleman's eye,--nothing like raw beef-steak for a bruise, sir; cold lamp-post very good, but lamp-post inconvenient--damned odd standing in the open street half-an-hour, with your eye against a lamp." ~ Mr. Jingle from The Pickwick Papers
- ["If man would help some](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/if-man-would-help-some/) - "If man would help some of us a little more, God would forgive us all the sooner perhaps." ~ Dombey and Son
- [Mr. Tulkinghorn, sitting in the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/mr-tulkinghorn-sitting-in-the/) - Mr. Tulkinghorn, sitting in the twilight by the open window, enjoys his wine. As if it whispered to him of its fifty years of silence and seclusion, it shuts him up the closer. More impenetrable than ever, he sits, and drinks, and mellows as it were in secrecy, pondering at that twilight hour on all
- [In truth, no men on](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/in-truth-no-men-on/) - In truth, no men on earth can cheer like Englishmen, who do so rally one another's blood and spirit when they cheer in earnest, that the stir is like the rush of their whole history, with all its standards waving at once, from Saxon Alfred's downwards. ~ Little Dorrit
- [Dombey sat in the corner](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/dombey-sat-in-the-corner/) - Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and
- [A wonderful fact to reflect](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/a-wonderful-fact-to-reflect/) - A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. ~ A Tale of Two Cities
- [He was simply and staunchly](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/he-was-simply-and-staunchly/) - He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit. ~ The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- [Time shall show us. The](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/time-shall-show-us-the/) - Time shall show us. The post of honour and the post of shame, the general’s station and the drummer’s, a peer’s statue in Westminster Abbey and a seaman’s hammock in the bosom of the deep, the mitre and the workhouse, the woolsack and the gallows, the throne and the guillotine—the travellers to all are on
- [I admire machinery as much](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-admire-machinery-as-much/) - I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for us. But it will never be a substitute for the face of a man, with his soul in it, encouraging another man to be brave and true. ~ Wreck of the
- ["I will not retire," cried](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-will-not-retire-cried/) - "I will not retire," cried Kate, with flashing eyes and the red blood mantling in her cheeks. "You will do him no hurt that he will not repay. You may use force with me; I think you will, for I am a girl, and that would well become you. But if I have a girl's
- [I have known a vast](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-have-known-a-vast/) - I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. ~ Hunted Down
- ["To have a Cricket on](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/to-have-a-cricket-on/) - "To have a Cricket on the Hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!" ~ The Cricket on the Hearth
- [That punctual servant of all](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/that-punctual-servant-of-all/) - That punctual servant of all work, the sun, had just risen, and begun to strike a light on the morning of the thirteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, when Mr. Samuel Pickwick burst like another sun from his slumbers, threw open his chamber window, and looked out upon the world beneath. ~
- [committed a felony](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/committed-a-felony/) - Herbert said of himself, with his eyes fixed on the fire, that he thought he must have committed a felony and forgotten the details of it, he felt so dejected and guilty. ~ Great Expectations
- [I wish you to know](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-wish-you-to-know/) - "I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul. In my degradation I have not been so degraded but that the sight of you with your father, and of this home made such a home by you, has stirred old shadows that I thought had died out of me.
- [Oh, a wonderful pudding! Bob](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/oh-a-wonderful-pudding-bob/) - Oh, a wonderful pudding! Bob Cratchit said, and calmly too, that he regarded it as the greatest success achieved by Mrs. Cratchit since their marriage. Mrs. Cratchit said that now the weight was off her mind, she would confess she had had her doubts about the quantity of flour. Everybody had something to say about
- [All other swindlers upon earth](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/all-other-swindlers-upon-earth/) - 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 should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money! ~ Great
- [To be sure, the better](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/to-be-sure-the-better/) - To be sure, the better and profounder part of her character was not within his scope of perception; for in natures, as in seas, depth answers unto depth; but he soon began to read the rest with a student's eye. ~ Hard Times
- ["Judiciously show a cat milk,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/judiciously-show-a-cat-milk/) - "Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day." ~ A Tale of Two Cities
- [Ride on Rough-shod if need](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/ride-on-rough-shod-if-need/) - "Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!" ~ David Copperfield
- [And when it come to character](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/and-when-it-come-to-character/) - "And when it come to character, warn't it Compeyson as had been to the school, and warn't it his schoolfellows as was in this position and in that, and warn't it him as had been know'd by witnesses in such clubs and societies, and nowt to his disadvantage? And warn't it me as had been
- [To ladies and gentlemen who](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/to-ladies-and-gentlemen-who/) - To ladies and gentlemen who are not in the habit of devoting themselves practically to the science of penmanship, writing a letter is no very easy task; it being always considered necessary in such cases for the writer to recline his head on his left arm, so as to place his eyes as nearly as
- [Bleak, dark, and piercing cold](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/bleak-dark-and-piercing-cold/) - Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless, starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets, at such times, who, let their
- [There is probably a smell](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-is-probably-a-smell/) - There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it. ~ A Christmas Tree
- [It appeared to me that](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-appeared-to-me-that/) - It appeared to me that he must be a very happy man indeed, to have so many little drawers in his shop; and I wondered when I peeped into one or two on the lower tiers, and saw the tied-up brown paper packets inside, whether the flower-seeds and bulbs ever wanted of a fine day
- [I remembered her, from that](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-remembered-her-from-that/) - I remembered her, from that instant, only as the young mother of my earliest impressions, who had been used to wind her bright curls round and round her finger, and to dance with me at twilight in the parlour. . . . It may be curious, but it is true. In her death she winged
- ["It matters little," she said,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-matters-little-she-said/) - "It matters little," she said, softly. "To you, very little. Another idol has displaced me; and if it can cheer and comfort you in time to come, as I would have tried to do, I have no just cause to grieve." ~ A Christmas Carol
- [The boy was lying, fast](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-boy-was-lying-fast/) - The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shows in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle
- ["Oh mother, mother, if you](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/oh-mother-mother-if-you/) - "Oh mother, mother, if you had but left me to my natural heart when I too was a girl - a younger girl than Florence - how different I might have been!" ~ Dombey and Son
- [Young as I was, I](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/young-as-i-was-i/) - Young as I was, I believe that I dated a new admiration of Joe from that night. We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I had a new sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to
- [With a fierce action of](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/with-a-fierce-action-of/) - With a fierce action of her hand, as if she sprinkled hatred on the ground, and with it devoted those who were standing there to destruction, she looked up once at the black sky, and strode out into the wild night. ~ Dombey and Son
- [The persons on whom I](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-persons-on-whom-i/) - "The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love, lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up, forever, on my best affections. Deep affliction has but strengthened and refined them." ~
- [Indeed, it may be laid](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/indeed-it-may-be-laid/) - Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence and vagabondism; for in ancient days those two amusements, combining a wholesome excitement with a promising means of repairing shattered fortunes, were at once the ennobling pursuit and the healthful recreation of the
- [I have been looking on,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-have-been-looking-on/) - I have been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in the middle of a great round table, and towered high above their heads. It was brilliantly lighted by a multitude of little tapers; and everywhere sparkled and glittered
- ["A merry Christmas, Bob!" said](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/a-merry-christmas-bob-said/) - "A merry Christmas, Bob!" said Scrooge, with an earnestness that could not be mistaken, as he clapped him on the back. "A merrier Christmas, Bob, my good fellow, than I have given you for many a year! I'll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family, and we will discuss your affairs this
- [You have been in every](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/you-have-been-in-every/) - "You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since - on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that
- [The best sitting room at](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-best-sitting-room-at/) - The best sitting room at Manor Farm was a good, long, dark-panelled room with a high chimney-piece, and a capacious chimney, up which you could have driven one of the new patent cabs, wheels and all. At the upper end of the room, seated in a shady bower of holly and evergreens, were the two
- ["My uncle, gentlemen, could say](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/my-uncle-gentlemen-could-say/) - "My uncle, gentlemen, could say nothing; he was so very much astonished The queerest thing of all, was, that although there was such a crowd of persons, and although fresh faces were pouring in, every moment, there was no telling where they came from. They seemed to start up, in some strange manner, from the
- [My Meaning Is](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/my-meaning-is/) - "My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades." ~ Martin Chuzzlewit
- [Love, though said to be](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/love-though-said-to-be/) - Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman. ~ Our Mutual Friend
- [The Ship's A Good Ship](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-ships-a-good-ship/) - "I am not afeard, my Heart's-delight," resumed the Captain. "There's been most uncommon bad weather in them latitudes, there's no denyin', and they have drove and drove and been beat off, may be t'other side the world. But the ship's a good ship, and the lad's a good lad; and it ain't easy, thank the
- ["There can be no disparity](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-can-be-no-disparity/) - "There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose." ~ David Copperfield
- [But what was a girl](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/but-what-was-a-girl/) - But what was a girl to Dombey and Son! In the capital of the House's name and dignity, such a child was merely a piece of base coin that couldn't be invested--a bad Boy--nothing more. ~ Dombey and Son
- [When she took her opposite](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/when-she-took-her-opposite/) - When she took her opposite place in the carriage corner, the brightness in her face was so charming to behold, that on her exclaiming, "What beautiful stars and what a glorious night!" the Secretary said "Yes," but seemed to prefer to see the night and the stars in the light of her lovely little countenance,
- [She rowed hard--rowed desperately, but](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/she-rowed-hard-rowed-desperately-but/) - She rowed hard--rowed desperately, but never wildly--and seldom removed her eyes from him in the bottom of the boat. She had so laid him there, as that she might see his disfigured face; it was so much disfigured that his mother might have covered it, but it was above and beyond disfigurement in her eyes.
- [Dumb as a drum vith](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/dumb-as-a-drum-vith/) - "Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir." ~ The Pickwick Papers
- [There is not a manufacturer](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-is-not-a-manufacturer/) - There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride in the appearance of himself and those about him, in preference to a sullen, slovenly fellow, who works doggedly on, regardless of his own clothing and that of his wife and children, and
- [An observer of men who](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/an-observer-of-men-who/) - An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door. ~
- [For the night-wind has a](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/for-the-night-wind-has-a/) - For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter. And when it has got in; as one not finding what it
- [It came like magic in](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-came-like-magic-in/) - It came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort. ~ Little Dorrit
- [Oliver's pillow was smoothed by](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/olivers-pillow-was-smoothed-by/) - Oliver's pillow was smoothed by gentle hands that night; and loveliness and virtue watched him as he slept. ~ Oliver Twist
- [You'll bring your threats here,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/youll-bring-your-threats-here/) - "You'll bring your threats here, will you?" said Gride, whom jealousy of Nicholas and a sense of his own triumph had converted into a perfect fiend. "You, the disappointed lover--oh dear! He! he! he!--but you shan't have her, nor she you. She's my wife, my doting little wife. Do you think she'll miss you? Do
- [Yes. He saw her in](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/yes-he-saw-her-in/) - Yes. He saw her in his mind, exactly as she was. She bore him company with her pride, resentment, hatred, all as plain to him as her beauty; with nothing plainer to him than her hatred of him. He saw her sometimes haughty and repellent at his side, and some times down among his horse's
- ["Oh, what a misfortune is](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/oh-what-a-misfortune-is/) - "Oh, what a misfortune is mine," cried Bradley, breaking off to wipe the starting perspiration from his face as he shook from head to foot, "that I cannot so control myself as to appear a stronger creature than this, when a man who has not felt in all his life what I have felt in
- [What is natural in me,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/what-is-natural-in-me/) - What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that I never had loved Steerforth better than when the ties that bound me to him were broken. In the keen distress of the discovery of his unworthiness, I thought more of all that
- [Tell Wind and Fire where](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/tell-wind-and-fire-where/) - "Tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me." ~ A Tale of Two Cities
- [I can see others in](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-can-see-others-in/) - I can see others in the sunlight; I can see our boats' crews and our athletic young men on the glistening water, or speckled with the moving lights of sunlit leaves; but I myself am always in the shadow looking on. Not unsympathetically, - God forbid! - but looking on alone, much as I looked
- ["Oh!" said my aunt, "I](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/oh-said-my-aunt-i/) - "Oh!" said my aunt, "I was not aware at first to whom I had the pleasure of objecting." ~ David Copperfield
- [All the housemaid hopes is,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/all-the-housemaid-hopes-is/) - All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels the independence and the safety of a single life. ~ Dombey and Son
- [Indeed this gentleman’s stoicism was](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/indeed-this-gentlemans-stoicism-was/) - Indeed this gentleman’s stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of his friends, but renders him, by way of counterpoise, rather selfish and sensitive in respect of any that happen to befall himself. ~ Barnaby Rudge
- ["There is no such passion](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-is-no-such-passion/) - "There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen." ~ Martin Chuzzlewit
- [The bright, frosty day declined](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-bright-frosty-day-declined/) - The bright, frosty day declined as they walked and spoke together. The sun dipped in the river far behind them, and the old city lay red before them, as their walk drew to a close. The moaning water cast its seaweed duskily at their feet, when they turned to leave its margin; and the rooks
- ["Moths, and all sorts of](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/moths-and-all-sorts-of/) - "Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures," replied Estella, with a glance towards him, "hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?" ~ Great Expectations
- [The earth covered with a](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-earth-covered-with-a/) - The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of funeral feathers, waving sadly to and fro: all hushed, all noiseless, and in deep repose, save the swift clouds that skim across the moon, and the cautious wind, as, creeping after them upon
- ["There is no deception now,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-is-no-deception-now/) - "There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones." ~ The Pickwick Papers
- [Quadruped lions are said to](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/quadruped-lions-are-said-to/) - Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased. ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- ["You see," said Mr. Toots,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/you-see-said-mr-toots/) - "You see," said Mr. Toots, "what I wanted in a wife was - in short, was sense. Money, Feeder, I had. Sense I - I had not, particularly." ~ Dombey and Son
- ["Vether it's worth goin' through](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/vether-its-worth-goin-through/) - "Vether it's worth goin' through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said ven he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o' taste." ~ The Pickwick Papers
- ["Well, well!" said my aunt.](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/well-well-said-my-aunt/) - "Well, well!" said my aunt. "I only ask. I don't depreciate her. Poor little couple! And so you think you were formed for one another, and are to go through a party-supper-table kind of life, like two pretty pieces of confectionery, do you, Trot?" ~ David Copperfield
- ["As I think I told](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/as-i-think-i-told/) - "As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves.
- [Lawyers hold that there are](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/lawyers-hold-that-there-are/) - Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness. ~ The Pickwick Papers
- ["Barkis is willin'."](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/barkis-is-willin/) - "Barkis is willin'." ~ David Copperfield
- ["Open that bundle, old Joe,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/open-that-bundle-old-joe/) - "Open that bundle, old Joe, and let me know the value of it. Speak out plain. I’m not afraid to be the first, nor afraid for them to see it. We knew pretty well that we were helping ourselves before we met here, I believe. It’s no sin. Open the bundle, Joe." ~ A Christmas
- ["Hope to the last!" said](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/hope-to-the-last-said/) - "Hope to the last!" said Newman, clapping him on the back. "Always hope; that's dear boy. Never leave off hoping; it don't answer. Do you mind me, Nick? it don't answer. Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you've done the most you could. But, don't leave off hoping, or it's of
- [He had a certain air](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/he-had-a-certain-air/) - 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 he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world. ~ Little Dorrit
- [Treachery don't come natural to](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/treachery-dont-come-natural-to/) - "Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,--they do, thank God!" ~ Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy
- [The earth had donned her](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-earth-had-donned-her/) - The earth had donned her mantle of brightest green; and shed her richest perfumes abroad. It was the prime and vigour of the year; all things were glad and flourishing. ~ Oliver Twist
- [The night crept on apace,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-night-crept-on-apace/) - The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from behind a distant hill, the noble sun rose up, driving the mists in phantom shapes before it, and clearing the earth of their ghostly forms till darkness came again. ~ The
- [My meaning simply is, that](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/my-meaning-simply-is-that/) - My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest. ~ David Copperfield
- [It was the first time](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-was-the-first-time/) - It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed. ~ David Copperfield
- [Charles Darnay seemed to stand](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/charles-darnay-seemed-to-stand/) - Charles Darnay seemed to stand in a company of the dead. Ghosts all! The ghost of beauty, the ghost of stateliness, the ghost of elegance, the ghost of pride, the ghost of frivolity, the ghost of wit, the ghost of youth, the ghost of age, all waiting their dismissal from the desolate shore, all turning
- ["A person who can’t pay,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/a-person-who-cant-pay/) - "A person who can’t pay, gets another person who can’t pay, to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs, to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don’t make either of them able to do a walking match." ~ Little Dorrit
- [This was another of her](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/this-was-another-of-her/) - This was another of her ways of forming a mind—to cram all articles of difficulty into cupboards, lock them up, and say they had no existence. It was the easiest way, and, beyond all comparison, the properest. ~ Little Dorrit
- [One Disagreeable Result of Whispering](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/one-disagreeable-result-of-whispering/) - One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound - strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow. ~
- [I fear your kind and](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-fear-your-kind-and/) - "I fear your kind and open communication, which has rendered me more painfully conscious of my own defects, has not improved me," sighed Kate. ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- [Her contempt for me was](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/her-contempt-for-me-was/) - Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it. ~ Great Expectations
- [The memories which peaceful country](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-memories-which-peaceful-country/) - The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence may teach us how to weave fresh garlands for the graves of those we loved: may purify our thoughts, and bear down before it old enmity and hatred; but beneath all this, there
- [It was a murky confusion](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-was-a-murky-confusion/) - It was a murky confusion - here and there blotted with a colour like the colour of the smoke from damp fuel - of flying clouds, tossed up into most remarkable heaps, suggesting greater heights in the clouds than there were depths below them to the bottom of the deepest hollows in the earth, through
- [No one has the least](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/no-one-has-the-least/) - No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.
- [My comfort is said Susan](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/my-comfort-is-said-susan/) - "My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain." ~ Dombey and Son
- [He heard a shout -](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/he-heard-a-shout/) - He heard a shout - another - saw the face change from its vindictive passion to a faint sickness and terror - felt the earth tremble - knew in a moment that the rush was come - uttered a shriek - looked round - saw the red eyes, bleared and dim, in the daylight, close
- [But the words she spoke](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/but-the-words-she-spoke/) - But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive . . . nor worms forget. ~ Martin Chuzzlewit
- [We came to the house,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/we-came-to-the-house/) - We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs upon the hearth, and grim portraits (some of them with grim legends, too) lower distrustfully from the oaken panels of the walls. ~ A Christmas Tree
- ["How could you give me](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/how-could-you-give-me/) - "How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death?" ~ Hard Times
- [Oh! But he was a](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/oh-but-he-was-a/) - Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. ~ A Christmas Carol
- ["Remember how strong we are](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/remember-how-strong-we-are/) - "Remember how strong we are in our happiness, and how weak he is in his misery!" ~ A Tale of Two Cities
- [There was not one straight](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-was-not-one-straight/) - There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea. ~ Little Dorrit
- ["I must be taken as](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-must-be-taken-as/) - "I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me." ~ Great Expectations
- ["My little woman, I wondered](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/my-little-woman-i-wondered/) - "My little woman, I wondered how," gasped Mr. Tetterby, supporting himself by his chair, "I wondered how I had ever admired you - I forgot the precious children you have brought about me, and thought you didn't look as slim as I could wish. I - I never gave a recollection," said Mr. Tetterby, with
- ["Don't be afraid! We won't](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/dont-be-afraid-we-wont/) - "Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to." ~ Oliver Twist
- ["It’s as well to be](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/its-as-well-to-be/) - "It’s as well to be kind whenever one can." ~ Martin Chuzzlewit
- ["O' course I came to](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/o-course-i-came-to/) - "O' course I came to look arter you, my darlin'," replied Mr. Weller; for once permitting his passion to get the better of his veracity. ~ The Pickwick Papers
- [At Paris, I took an](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/at-paris-i-took-an/) - At Paris, I took an upper apartment for a few days in one of the hotels of the Rue de Rivoli; my front windows looking into the garden of the Tuileries (where the principal difference between the nursemaids and the flowers seemed to be that the former were locomotive and the latter not). ~ The
- ["The happiness he gives, is](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-happiness-he-gives-is/) - "The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune." ~ A Christmas Carol
- [There are chords in the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-are-chords-in-the/) - There are chords in the human heart--strange, varying strings--which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch. ~ The Old Curiosity Shop
- [As he glided stealthily along,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/as-he-glided-stealthily-along/) - As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal. ~ Oliver Twist
- [He was conscious of a](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/he-was-conscious-of-a/) - He was conscious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares long, long, forgotten! ~ A Christmas Carol
- [If ever household affections and](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/if-ever-household-affections-and/) - If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of the truer metal and bear the stamp of Heaven. ~ The
- [Mr Dombey was resolved to](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/mr-dombey-was-resolved-to/) - Mr Dombey was resolved to show her that he was supreme. There must be no will but his. Proud he desired that she should be, but she must be proud for, not against him. ~ Dombey and Son
- [Thus, clinging fast to that](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/thus-clinging-fast-to-that/) - Thus, clinging fast to that slight spar within her arms, the mother drifted out upon the dark and unknown sea that rolls round all the world. ~ Dombey and Son
- [The boy stirred, and smiled](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-boy-stirred-and-smiled/) - The boy stirred, and smiled in his sleep, as though these marks of pity and compassion had awakened some pleasant dream of a love and affection he had never known. Thus, a strain of gentle music, or the rippling of water in a silent place, or the odour of a flower, or the mention of
- ["But even if he has](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/but-even-if-he-has/) - "But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a mother's love, or the comfort of a home; that ill-usage and blows, or the want of bread, may have driven him to herd with men who have forced him to guilt. Aunt, dear
- [Take Another Glass](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/take-another-glass/) - "Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one's glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one's nose." ~ Great Expectations
- [He was drunk upon the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/he-was-drunk-upon-the/) - He was drunk upon the average once a day, and penitent upon an equally fair calculation once a month; and when he was penitent, he was invariably in the very last stage of maudlin intoxication. He was a ragged, roving, roaring kind of fellow, with a burly form, a sharp wit, and a ready head,
- ["I want to know what](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-want-to-know-what/) - "I want to know what it says," he answered, looking steadily in her face. "The sea, Floy, what is it that it keeps on saying?" ~ Dombey and Son
- ["He says--him as was here](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/he-says-him-as-was-here/) - "He says--him as was here just now--'When Tom shut up the house, mate, to go to rack, the beds was left, all made, like as if somebody was a-going to sleep in every bed. And if you was to walk through the bedrooms now, you'd see the ragged mouldy bedclothes a heaving and a heaving
- [The noise in this room](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-noise-in-this-room/) - The noise in this room was perfectly tumultuous, for there were more children there, than Scrooge in his agitated state of mind could count; and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves like one, but every child was conducting itself like forty. ~ A Christmas Carol
- [The new flower sprang from](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-new-flower-sprang-from/) - The new flower sprang from the deep-planted and long-cherished root, she knew. Every gentle word that had fallen from the lips of the beautiful lady, sounded to Florence like an echo of the voice long hushed and silent. How could she love that memory less for living tenderness, when it was her memory of all
- [How beautiful you are!](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/how-beautiful-you-are/) - "How beautiful you are! You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. I don't ask you for your love; give me yourself and your hatred; give me yourself and that pretty rage; give me yourself and that enchanting scorn; it will be enough for me." ~ The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- ["Many a gentleman lives well](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/many-a-gentleman-lives-well/) - "Many a gentleman lives well upon a soft head, who would find a heart of the same quality a very great drawback." ~ Barnaby Rudge
- ["Have I yet to learn](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/have-i-yet-to-learn/) - "Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!" ~ The Old Curiosity Shop
- [Although Oliver had been brought](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/although-oliver-had-been-brought/) - Although Oliver had been brought up by philosophers, he was not theoretically acquainted with the beautiful axiom that self-preservation is the first law of nature. ~ Oliver Twist
- [In this round world of](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/in-this-round-world-of/) - In this round world of many circles within circles, do we make a weary journey from the high grade to the low, to find at last that they lie close together, that the two extremes touch, and that our journey’s end is but our starting-place? ~ Dombey and Son
- [Time, consoler of affliction and](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/time-consoler-of-affliction-and/) - Time, consoler of affliction and softener of anger. ~ Dombey and Son
- [Annual income twenty pounds, annual](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/annual-income-twenty-pounds-annual/) - Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. ~ David Copperfield
- [Persuading himself that he was](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/persuading-himself-that-he-was/) - Persuading himself that he was a most conscientious and glorious martyr, nobly resolved to do what, if he had examined his own heart a little more carefully, he would have found he could not resist. Such is the sleight of hand by which we juggle with ourselves, and change our very weaknesses into stanch and
- [It's a dark night, sang](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/its-a-dark-night-sang/) - It's a dark night, sang the kettle, and the rotten leaves are lying by the way; and, above, all is mist and darkness, and, below, all is mire and clay; and there's only one relief in all the sad and murky air; and I don't know that it is one, for it's nothing but a
- [The wind is rushing after](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-wind-is-rushing-after/) - The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far we are pursued by nothing else. ~ A Tale of Two Cities
- ["I see the lives for](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-see-the-lives-for/) - "I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy, in that England which I shall see no more. " ~ A Tale of Two Cities
- [So, she leaning on her](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/so-she-leaning-on-her/) - So, she leaning on her husband's arm, they turned homeward by a rosy path which the gracious sun struck out for them in its setting. And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love
- [Heaped up on the floor,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/heaped-up-on-the-floor/) - Heaped up on the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of oysters, red-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeke apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch, that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.
- [A dangerous quality, if real;](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/a-dangerous-quality-if-real/) - A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned. ~ Dombey and Son
- [Most men unconsciously judge the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/most-men-unconsciously-judge-the/) - Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples. ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- [Ay, said the Captain, reverentially;](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/ay-said-the-captain-reverentially/) - "Ay," said the Captain, reverentially; "it's a almighty element. There's wonders in the deep, my pretty. Think on it when the winds is roaring and the waves is rowling. Think on it when the stormy nights is so pitch dark," said the Captain, solemnly holding up his hook, "as you can't see your hand afore
- [Long may it remain in](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/long-may-it-remain-in/) - Long may it remain in this mixed world a point not easy of decision, which is the more beautiful evidence of the Almighty's goodness--the delicate fingers that are formed for sensitiveness and sympathy of touch, and made to minister to pain and grief, or the rough hard Captain Cuttle hand, that the heart teaches, guides,
- [Wal'r, my dear lad said](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/walr-my-dear-lad-said/) - "Wal'r, my dear lad," said the Captain, 'farewell! Wal'r my child, my boy, and man, I loved you! He warn't my flesh and blood," said the Captain, looking at the fire - "I ain't got none - but something of what a father feels when he loses a son, I feel in ~ Dombey and
- ["She's a very charming and](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/shes-a-very-charming-and/) - "She's a very charming and delightful creature," quoth Mr. Robert Sawyer, in reply; "and has only one fault that I know of, Ben. It happens, unfortunately, that that single blemish is a want of taste. She don't like me." ~ The Pickwick Papers
- [He had a sense of](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/he-had-a-sense-of/) - He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity. ~ Little
- [Strong mental agitation and disturbance](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/strong-mental-agitation-and-disturbance/) - Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such. ~ Dombey and Son
- [There is one broad sky](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-is-one-broad-sky/) - There is one broad sky over all the world, and whether it be blue or cloudy, the same heaven beyond it. ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- ["O Mr. Rokesmith, before you](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/o-mr-rokesmith-before-you/) - "O Mr. Rokesmith, before you go, if you could but make me poor again! O! Make me poor again, Somebody, I beg and pray, or my heart will break if this goes on! Pa, dear, make me poor again and take me home! I was bad enough there, but I have been so much worse
- [The first diabolical character who](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-first-diabolical-character-who/) - The first diabolical character who intruded himself on my peaceful youth (as I called to mind that day at Dullborough), was a certain Captain Murderer. This wretch must have been an off-shoot of the Blue Beard family, but I had no suspicion of the consanguinity in those times. His warning name would seem to have
- [Lizzie I never thought](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/lizzie-i-never-thought/) - "Lizzie! I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction of me. You don't know what my state of mind towards you is. You don't know how you haunt me and bewilder me. You don't
- [turned his face away](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/turned-his-face-away/) - When he saw her sitting there all alone, so young, and good, and beautiful, and kind to him; and heard her thrilling voice, so natural and sweet, and such a golden link between him and all his life's love and happiness, rising out of the silence; he turned his face away, and hid his tears.
- [She staggered and fell:](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/she-staggered-and-fell/) - She staggered and fell: nearly blinded with the blood that rained down from a deep gash in her forehead; but raising herself, with difficulty, on her knees, drew from her bosom a white handkerchief--Rose Maylie's own--and holding it up, in her folded hands, as high towards Heaven as her feeble strength would allow, breathed one
- [External heat and cold had](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/external-heat-and-cold-had/) - External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. ~ A Christmas Carol
- [The air came laden with](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-air-came-laden-with/) - The air came laden with the fragrance it caught upon its way, and the bees, upborne upon its scented breath, hummed forth their drowsy satisfaction as they floated by. ~ The Old Curiosity Shop
- [quite a good fellow](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/quite-a-good-fellow/) - "Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own." ~ David Copperfield
- [The evening wind made such](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-evening-wind-made-such/) - The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into
- [He was a rich man:](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/he-was-a-rich-man/) - He was a rich man: banker, merchant, manufacturer, and what not. A big, loud man, with a stare, and a metallic laugh. A man made out of a coarse material, which seemed to have been stretched to make so much of him. A man with a great puffed head and forehead, swelled veins in his
- [They were all silent for](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/they-were-all-silent-for/) - They were all silent for a long while. As it got to be flood-tide, and the water came nearer to them, noises on the river became more frequent, and they listened more. To the turning of steam-paddles, to the clinking of iron chain, to the creaking of blocks, to the measured working of oars, to
- [She was a most wonderful woman](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/she-was-a-most-wonderful-woman/) - She was a most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from story to story was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the
- ["You may be an undigested](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/you-may-be-an-undigested/) - "You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!" ~ A Christmas Carol
- [The haggard aspect of the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-haggard-aspect-of-the/) - The haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place; he might have groped among old churches and tombs and deserted houses and gathered all the spoils with his own hands. There was nothing in the whole collection but was in keeping with himself nothing that looked older or more worn
- [The white face of the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-white-face-of-the/) - The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire. ~ Our
- [These words will never see](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/these-words-will-never-see/) - These words will never see the light, if ever, until my heart is dust; until her bright spirit has returned to the regions of which, when imprisoned here, it surely retained some unusual glimpse of remembrance; until all the pulses that ever beat around us shall have long been quiet; until all the fruits of
- [A frosty rime was on](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/a-frosty-rime-was-on/) - A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn’t thaw it one degree at Christmas. ~ A Christmas Carol
- [It had grown darker as](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-had-grown-darker-as/) - It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising." ~
- [Surely there had been no](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/surely-there-had-been-no/) - Surely there had been no figure leaning on the back of his chair; no face looking over it. It is certain that no gliding footstep touched the floor, as he lifted up his head, with a start, and spoke. And yet there was no mirror in the room on whose surface his own form could
- [I have tried to resign](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-have-tried-to-resign/) - I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in
- [The White Arms Beckon](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-white-arms-beckon/) - All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away. ~ Dombey and
- ["Why am I always at](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/why-am-i-always-at/) - "Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?" ~ Our Mutual Friend
- [His gaze wandered](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/his-gaze-wandered/) - His gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from him. Many of us would, if we could; but none of us so much as know our letters in the stars yet - or seem likely to do it, in this state of
- [If I may so express](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/if-i-may-so-express/) - If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and
- [They never showed a better](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/they-never-showed-a-better/) - They never showed a better fog in London on Lord Mayor's day, than enwrapped the town of Mudfog on that eventful occasion. It had risen slowly and surely from the green and stagnant water with the first light of morning, until it reached a little above the lamp-post tops; and there it had stopped, with
- ["Next," said Mrs Wilfer with](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/next-said-mrs-wilfer-with/) - "Next," said Mrs Wilfer with a wave of her gloves, expressive of abdication under protest from the culinary throne, "I would recommend examination of the bacon in the saucepan on the fire, and also of the potatoes by the application of a fork. Preparation of the greens will further become necessary if you persist in
- [Thus violent deeds live after](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/thus-violent-deeds-live-after/) - Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves. ~ The Old Curiosity Shop
- [Human Gore](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/human-gore/) - "Something will come of this. I hope it mayn't be human gore." ~ Barnaby Rudge
- [If any sunbeam stole into](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/if-any-sunbeam-stole-into/) - If any sunbeam stole into the room to light the children at their play, it never reached his face. He looked on so fixedly and coldly, that the warm light vanished even from the laughing eyes of little Florence, when, at last, they happened to meet his. ~ Dombey and Son
- [You anticipate what I would](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/you-anticipate-what-i-would/) - "You anticipate what I would say, though you cannot know how earnestly I say it, how earnestly I feel it, without knowing my secret heart, and the hopes and fears and anxieties with which it has long been laden. Dear Doctor Manette, I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love
- [To be allowed to call](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/to-be-allowed-to-call/) - To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think that when she was with other people she was yet mindful of me, seemed to me the summit of human ambition - I am sure it was the summit of mine. ~ David
- ["If I could work my](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/if-i-could-work-my/) - "If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!" ~ A Christmas Carol
- [Loves and Cupids took to](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/loves-and-cupids-took-to/) - Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering. ~ Dombey and Son
- ["But he was a child](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/but-he-was-a-child/) - "But he was a child once," said the old man. "He played with children. Before he lay down on his bed at night, and fell into his guiltless rest, he said his prayers at his poor mother's knee. I have seen him do it, many a time; and seen her lay his head upon her
- ["As I said just now,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/as-i-said-just-now/) - "As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen are not the same as they used to be, apprentices are not the same, business is not the same, business commodities are not the same. Seven-eighths of my stock is old-fashioned. I am
- [A tender young cork, however,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/a-tender-young-cork-however/) - A tender young cork, however, would have had no more chance against a pair of corkscrews, or a tender young tooth against a pair of dentists, or a little shuttlecock against two battledores, than I had against Uriah and Mrs. Heep. They did just what they liked with me; and wormed things out of me
- ["Time has been lost and](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/time-has-been-lost-and/) - "Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it." ~ Barnaby Rudge
- [That was a memorable day](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/that-was-a-memorable-day/) - That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron
- [And though home is a](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/and-though-home-is-a/) - And though home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit answered to, in strongest conjuration. ~ Martin Chuzzlewit
- ["The school is not quite](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-school-is-not-quite/) - "The school is not quite deserted," said the Ghost. "A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still." ~ A Christmas Carol
- [a man must take](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/a-man-must-take/) - "Lord bless you!" said Mr. Omer, resuming his pipe, "a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must make up his mind to, in this life. " ~ David Copperfield
- ["I take my leave of](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-take-my-leave-of/) - "I take my leave of you, Mr. Creakle, and all of you," said Mr. Mell, glancing round the room, and again patting me gently on the shoulders. "James Steerforth, the best wish I can leave you is that you may come to be ashamed of what you have done today. At present I would prefer
- ["I wish you could make](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-wish-you-could-make/) - "I wish you could make a friend of me, Lizzie. Do you think you could? I have no more of what they call character, my dear, than a canary-bird, but I know I am trustworthy." ~ Our Mutual Friend
- [When the sounds that had](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/when-the-sounds-that-had/) - When the sounds that had arisen with the shadows, and come out of their lurking-places at the twilight summons, seemed to make a deeper stillness all about him. When the wind was rumbling in the chimney, and sometimes crooning, sometimes howling, in the house. When the old trees outside were so shaken and beaten, that
- ["If I wanted to have](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/if-i-wanted-to-have/) - "If I wanted to have all the bells in a house ring, with nobody to ring 'em; and all the doors in a house bang, with nobody to bang 'em; and all sorts of feet treading about, with no feet there; why, then," said the landlord, "I'd sleep in that house." ~ The Haunted House
- [No one who can read,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/no-one-who-can-read/) - No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. ~ Our Mutual Friend
- [It is an old prerogative](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-is-an-old-prerogative/) - It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions. ~ The Pickwick Papers
- [The clouds were drifting over](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-clouds-were-drifting-over/) - The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed: at one time wholly obscuring her: at another, suffering her to burst forth in full splendour and shed her light on all the objects around: anon, driving over her again, with increased velocity, and shrouding everything in darkness. ~ The Pickwick Papers
- [Night, like a giant, fills](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/night-like-a-giant-fills/) - Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead. ~ Dombey and Son
- [There are dark shadows on](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-are-dark-shadows-on/) - There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. ~ The Pickwick Papers
- [Two people who cannot afford](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/two-people-who-cannot-afford/) - Two people who cannot afford to play cards for money, sometimes sit down to a quiet game for love. ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- ["We will wait," answered little](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/we-will-wait-answered-little/) - "We will wait," answered little Alice, taking Nettie's hand in hers, and looking up to the sky, "we will wait - ever constant and true - till the times have got so changed as that everything helps us out, and nothing makes us ridiculous, and the fairies have come back. We will wait - ever
- [Still his philanthropy](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/still-his-philanthropy/) - Still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine. ~ The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- [When we came within sight](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/when-we-came-within-sight/) - When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings. ~ David Copperfield
- [Bless you, sir, said the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/bless-you-sir-said-the/) - "Bless you, sir," said the very queer small boy, "'when I was not more than half as old as nine, it used to be a treat for me to be brought to look at it. And now, I am nine, I come by myself to look at it. And ever since I can recollect, my
- [Day was shining radiantly upon](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/day-was-shining-radiantly-upon/) - Day was shining radiantly upon the town then, and the bells were going for the morning work. Domestic fires were not yet lighted, and the high chimneys had the sky to themselves. Puffing out their poisonous volumes, they would not be long in hiding it; but, for half an hour, some of the many windows
- [The poulterers' shops were still](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-poulterers-shops-were-still/) - The poulterers' shops were still half open, and the fruiterers' were radiant in their glory. There were great, round, pot-bellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped like the waistcoats of jolly old gentlemen, lolling at the doors, and tumbling out into the street in their apoplectic opulence. There were ruddy, brown-faced, broad-girthed Spanish Onions, shining in the
- [Dignity, and even holiness too,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/dignity-and-even-holiness-too/) - Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine. ~ Oliver Twist
- [So, Estella and I went](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/so-estella-and-i-went/) - So, Estella and I went out into the garden by the gate through which I had strayed to my encounter with the pale young gentleman, now Herbert; I, trembling in spirit and worshipping the very hem of her dress; she, quite composed and most decidedly not worshipping the hem of mine. ~ Great Expectations
- ["When we have done our](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/when-we-have-done-our/) - "When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others." ~ Holiday Romance
- [He had been for many](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/he-had-been-for-many/) - He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with other men, and used to companionship with his own thoughts. He had never known before the strength of the want in his heart for the frequent recognition of a nod, a look, a word; or the immense amount of relief that
- [She stood for some moments](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/she-stood-for-some-moments/) - She stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation out of the other. ~ Martin Chuzzlewit
- [The Secretary, working in the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-secretary-working-in-the/) - The Secretary, working in the Dismal Swamp betimes next morning, was informed that a youth waited in the hall who gave the name of Sloppy. The footman who communicated this intelligence made a decent pause before uttering the name, to express that it was forced on his reluctance by the youth in question, and that
- [There is something indefinably keen](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-is-something-indefinably-keen/) - There is something indefinably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners of her eyes without turning her head which could be pleasantly dispensed with, especially when she is in an ill humour and near knives. Through all the good taste of her dress and
- [Looking up, she showed him](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/looking-up-she-showed-him/) - Looking up, she showed him quite a young face, but one whose bloom and promise were all swept away, as if the haggard winter should unnaturally kill the spring. ~ The Haunted Man
- [If he had been a](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/if-he-had-been-a/) - If he had been a man with strength of purpose to face those troubles and fight them, he might have broken the net that held him, or broken his heart; but being what he was, he languidly slipped into this smooth descent, and never more took one step upward. ~ Little Dorrit
- [If you will take me](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/if-you-will-take-me/) - "If you will take me for your wife, Walter, I will love you dearly. If you will let me go with you, Walter, I will go to the world's end without fear. I can give up nothing for you - I have nothing to resign, and no one to forsake; but all my love and
- [It was as true](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-was-as-true/) - "It was as true . . . as turnips is. It was as true . . . as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them." ~ David Copperfield
- [As to what I dare](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/as-to-what-i-dare/) - "As to what I dare, I'm a old bird now, as has dared all manner of traps since first he was fledged, and I'm not afeerd to perch upon a scarecrow. If there's Death hid inside of it, there is, and let him come out, and I'll face him, and then I'll believe in him
- [And there he sits, munching](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/and-there-he-sits-munching/) - And there he sits, munching and gnawing, and looking up at the great cross on the summit of St. Paul's Cathedral, glittering above a red-and-violet-tinted cloud of smoke. From the boy's face one might suppose that sacred emblem to be, in his eyes, the crowning confusion of the great, confused city--so golden, so high up,
- ["I know, both as she](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-know-both-as-she/) - "I know, both as she would go to the wureld's furdest end with me, if she could once see me again; and that she would fly to the wureld's furdest end to keep off seeing me. For though she ain't no call to doubt my love, and doen't - and doen't," he repeated, with a
- [Prince Certainpersonio was sitting by](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/prince-certainpersonio-was-sitting-by/) - Prince Certainpersonio was sitting by himself, eating barley-sugar, and waiting to be ninety. When he saw the peacocks, followed by the carriage, coming in at the window it immediately occurred to him that something uncommon was going to happen. ~ Holiday Romance
- [Not that I have any](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/not-that-i-have-any/) - Not that I have any curiosity to hear powerful preachers. Time was, when I was dragged by the hair of my head, as one may say, to hear too many. On summer evenings, when every flower, and tree, and bird, might have better addressed my soft young heart, I have in my day been caught
- [We part with tender](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/we-part-with-tender/) - "We part with tender relations stretching far behind us, that never can be exactly renewed, and with others dawning - yet before us." ~ The Battle of Life
- [He had a cringing manner,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/he-had-a-cringing-manner/) - He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidding, that to have had his company under the least repulsive circumstances, one would have wished him to be out of temper that he might only scowl. ~ The Old Curiosity Shop
- [It is said that every](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-is-said-that-every/) - It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen’s case, whereby somebody else had become possessed of his roses, and he had become possessed of the same somebody else’s thorns in addition to his own. ~ Hard Times
- [In mind, she was of](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/in-mind-she-was-of/) - In mind, she was of a strong and vigorous turn, having from her earliest youth devoted herself with uncommon ardour to the study of law; not wasting her speculations upon its eagle flights, which are rare, but tracing it attentively through all the slippery and eel-like crawlings in which it commonly pursues its way. ~
- [The young woman who brought](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-young-woman-who-brought/) - The young woman who brought me acquainted with Captain Murderer had a fiendish enjoyment of my terrors, and used to begin, I remember - as a sort of introductory overture - by clawing the air with both hands, and uttering a long low hollow groan. So acutely did I suffer from this ceremony in combination
- [It was evident from the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-was-evident-from-the/) - It was evident from the general tone of the whole party, that they had come to regard insolvency as the normal state of mankind, and the payment of debts as a disease that occasionally broke out. ~ Little Dorrit
- [I only ask to be](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-only-ask-to-be/) - "I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies." ~ Bleak House
- [It's My Old Girl That Advises](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/its-my-old-girl-that-advises/) - "George," says Mr. Bagnet. "You know me. It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained. Wait till the greens is off her mind. Then we'll consult. Whatever the old girl says, do--do it!" ~ Bleak House
- [That glorious vision of doing](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/that-glorious-vision-of-doing/) - That glorious vision of doing good, which is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds, arose before him, and he even saw himself in the illusion with some influence to guide this raging Revolution that was running so fearfully wild. ~ A Tale of Two Cities
- [Cramped in all kinds of](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/cramped-in-all-kinds-of/) - Cramped in all kinds of dim cupboards and hutches at Tellson's, the oldest of men carried on the business gravely. When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place, like a cheese, until he had the full Tellson flavour
- [I wonder that the great](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-wonder-that-the-great/) - I wonder that the great master who knew everything, when he called Sleep the death of each day's life, did not call Dreams the insanity of each day's sanity. ~ The Uncommercial Traveller - Night Walks
- [Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/battledore-and-shuttlecocks-a-wery/) - "Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you ain't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too excitin' to be pleasant." ~ The Pickwick Papers
- ["God bless us every one!"](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/god-bless-us-every-one/) - "God bless us every one!" said Tiny Tim, the last of all. ~ A Christmas Carol
- ["It is required of every](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-is-required-of-every/) - "It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death." ~ A Christmas Carol
- [Dreams are the bright creatures](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/dreams-are-the-bright-creatures/) - Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world. ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- [Ecod, you may say what](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/ecod-you-may-say-what/) - "Ecod, you may say what you like of my father, then, and so I give you leave," said Jonas. "I think it's liquid aggravation that circulates through his veins, and not regular blood." ~ Martin Chuzzlewit
- [Thirty years ago, Marseilles lay](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/thirty-years-ago-marseilles-lay/) - Thirty years ago, Marseilles lay burning in the sun, one day. ~ Little Dorrit
- ["I will die here where](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-will-die-here-where/) - "I will die here where I have walked. And I will walk here, though I am in my grave. I will walk here until the pride of this house is humbled." ~ Bleak House
- [Day was breaking at Plashwater](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/day-was-breaking-at-plashwater/) - Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was not the light of night. The moon had gone down, and a mist crept along the banks of the river, seen through which the trees were the ghosts of trees, and the water
- ["Peggotty!" repeated Miss Betsey, with](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/peggotty-repeated-miss-betsey-with/) - "Peggotty!" repeated Miss Betsey, with some indignation. "Do you mean to say, child, that any human being has gone into a Christian church, and got herself named Peggotty?" ~ David Copperfield
- [A modest ring at the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/a-modest-ring-at-the/) - A modest ring at the bell at length allayed her fears, and Miss Benton, hurrying into her own room and shutting herself up, in order that she might preserve that appearance of being taken by surprise which is so essential to the polite reception of visitors, awaited their coming with a smiling countenance. ~ Master
- [As the goblin laughed, the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/as-the-goblin-laughed-the/) - As the goblin laughed, the sexton observed, for one instant, a brilliant illumination within the windows of the church, as if the whole building were lighted up; it disappeared, the organ pealed forth a lively air, and whole troops of goblins, the very counterpart of the first one, poured into the churchyard, and began playing
- ["Oh God! to hear the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/oh-god-to-hear-the/) - "Oh God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!" ~ A Christmas Carol
- ["Lie on!" cried the usurer,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/lie-on-cried-the-usurer/) - "Lie on!" cried the usurer, "with your iron tongue! Ring merrily for births that make expectants writhe, and marriages that are made in hell, and toll ruefully for the dead whose shoes are worn already! Call men to prayers who are godly because not found out, and ring chimes for the coming in of every
- ["You are a boy," said](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/you-are-a-boy-said/) - "You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it." ~ Dombey and Son
- [He was sailing over a](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/he-was-sailing-over-a/) - He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying up, on every side. There was another vessel before them, toiling and labouring in the howling storm: her canvas fluttering in ribbons from the mast. ~ The Pickwick Papers
- [Some philosophers tell us that](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/some-philosophers-tell-us-that/) - Some philosophers tell us that selfishness is at the root of our best loves and affections. Mr. Dombey's young child was, from the beginning, so distinctly important to him as a part of his own greatness, or (which is the same thing) of the greatness of Dombey and Son, that there is no doubt his
- [The sky was dark and](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-sky-was-dark-and/) - The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour. ~ The Pickwick Papers
- [It is a most miserable](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-is-a-most-miserable/) - It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home. ~ Great Expectations
- [Such is hope, Heaven’s own](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/such-is-hope-heavens-own/) - Such is hope, Heaven’s own gift to struggling mortals; pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things, both good and bad; as universal as death, and more infectious than disease! ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- ["Thank Heaven upon your knees,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/thank-heaven-upon-your-knees/) - "Thank Heaven upon your knees, dear lady," cried the girl, "that you had friends to care for and keep you in your childhood, and that you were never in the midst of cold and hunger, and riot and drunkenness, and--and--something worse than all--as I have been from my cradle. I may use the word, for
- [Look round and round upon](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/look-round-and-round-upon/) - Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! it is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life, Tom, are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as
- [The man, after looking at](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-man-after-looking-at/) - The man, after looking at me for a moment, turned me upside down,and emptied my pockets. There was nothing in them but a piece of bread. ~ Great Expectations
- [It had been gradually getting](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-had-been-gradually-getting/) - It had been gradually getting overcast, and now the sky was dark and lowering, save where the glory of the departing sun piled up masses of gold and burning fire, decaying embers of which gleamed here and there through the black veil, and shone redly down upon the earth. The wind began to moan in
- [While the flowers, pale and](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/while-the-flowers-pale-and/) - While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal seas. ~ Little Dorrit
- [The sun that rises over](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-sun-that-rises-over/) - The sun that rises over the quiet streets of London on a bright Sunday morning, shines till his setting, on gay and happy faces. Here and there, so early as six o'clock, a young man and woman in their best attire, may be seen hurrying along on their way to the house of some acquaintance,
- [It was a cold hard](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-was-a-cold-hard/) - It was a cold hard easterly morning when he latched the garden gate and turned away. The light snowfall which had feathered his schoolroom windows on the Thursday, still lingered in the air, and was falling white, while the wind blew black. ~ Our Mutual Friend
- [It's a poor heart that](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/its-a-poor-heart-that/) - It's a poor heart that never rejoices. ~ Barnaby Rudge
- [It was very remarkable that](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-was-very-remarkable-that/) - It was very remarkable that a young gentleman who had been brought up under one continuous system of unnatural restraint, should be a hypocrite; but it was certainly the case with Tom. It was very strange that a young gentleman who had never been left to his own guidance for five consecutive minutes, should be
- [I discovered afterwards that Miss](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-discovered-afterwards-that-miss/) - I discovered afterwards that Miss Lavinia was an authority in affairs of the heart, by reason of there having anciently existed a certain Mr. Pidger, who played short whist, and was supposed to have been enamoured of her. My private opinion is, that this was entirely a gratuitous assumption, and that Pidger was altogether innocent
- ["You are a young man,"](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/you-are-a-young-man/) - "You are a young man," she said, nodding. "Take a word of advice, even from three foot nothing. Try not to associate bodily defects with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason." ~ David Copperfield
- ["Nobody near me here, but](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/nobody-near-me-here-but/) - "Nobody near me here, but rats, and they are fine stealthy secret fellows." ~ The Old Curiosity Shop
- [A moment, and its glory](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/a-moment-and-its-glory/) - A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile;
- ["I'm a going to seek](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/im-a-going-to-seek/) - "I'm a going to seek her, fur and wide. If any hurt should come to me, remember that the last words I left for her was, 'My unchanged love is with my darling child, and I forgive her!'" ~ David Copperfield
- ["Fan the sinking flame of](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/fan-the-sinking-flame-of/) - "Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine." ~ The Old Curiosity Shop
- ["Rich folks may ride on](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/rich-folks-may-ride-on/) - "Rich folks may ride on camels, but it an't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye. That is my comfort, and I hope I knows it." ~ Martin Chuzzlewit
- [So, Mr. Chadband--of whom the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/so-mr-chadband-of-whom-the/) - So, Mr. Chadband--of whom the persecutors say that it is no wonder he should go on for any length of time uttering such abominable nonsense, but that the wonder rather is that he should ever leave off, having once the audacity to begin--retires into private life until he invests a little capital of supper in
- [In short, I should have](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/in-short-i-should-have/) - In short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest licence of a child, and yet to have been man enough to know its value. ~ A Christmas Carol
- [False and subtle men will](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/false-and-subtle-men-will/) - False and subtle men will always secretly despise and dislike the object upon which they fawn and always resent the payment and receipt of homage that they know to be worthless. ~ Dombey and Son
- [The jovial party broke up](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-jovial-party-broke-up/) - The jovial party broke up next morning. Breakings-up are capital things in our school-days, but in after life they are painful enough. Death, self-interest, and fortune's changes, are every day breaking up many a happy group, and scattering them far and wide; and the boys and girls never come back again. ~ The Pickwick Papers
- [Arthur Gride, whose bleared](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/arthur-gride-whose-bleared/) - Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced -- a fantastic kind of warmth certainly, but not exactly that kind of warmth of feeling which the contemplation of virtue usually inspires. ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- [there is hope](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-is-hope/) - Remember to the last, that while there is life there is hope. ~ Wreck of the Golden Mary
- [Some persons hold, he pursued,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/some-persons-hold-he-pursued/) - "Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart." ~ Hard Times
- ["Lead on!" said Scrooge. "Lead](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/lead-on-said-scrooge-lead/) - "Lead on!" said Scrooge. "Lead on! The night is waning fast, and it is precious time to me, I know. Lead on, Spirit!" ~ A Christmas Carol
- ["It is a sensation not](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-is-a-sensation-not/) - "It is a sensation not experienced by many mortals," said he, "to be looking into a churchyard on a wild windy night, and to feel that I no more hold a place among the living than these dead do, and even to know that I lie buried somewhere else, as they lie buried here. Nothing
- [Poetry makes life what light](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/poetry-makes-life-what-light/) - Poetry makes life what light and music do the stage. ~ The Pickwick Papers
- ["I now swear, and record](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-now-swear-and-record/) - "I now swear, and record the oath on this page, That I nevermore will discuss this mystery with any human creature until I hold the clue to it in my hand. That I never will relax in my secrecy or in my search. That I will fasten the crime of the murder of my dear
- [If her eyes had no](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/if-her-eyes-had-no/) - If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face. ~ Little Dorrit
- ["Detestation of the high is](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/detestation-of-the-high-is/) - "Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low." ~ A Tale of Two Cities
- ["I hope that real love](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-hope-that-real-love/) - "I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world." ~ David Copperfield
- [Never Never Before Heaven](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/never-never-before-heaven/) - "Never, never, before Heaven, have I thought of you but as the single, bright, pure, blessed recollection of my boyhood and my youth. Never have I from the first, and never shall I to the last, regard your part in my life, but as something sacred, never to be lightly thought of, never to be
- [With throbbing veins and burning](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/with-throbbing-veins-and-burning/) - With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing. ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- [Up the two terrace flights](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/up-the-two-terrace-flights/) - Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within. ~ A Tale of Two Cities
- ["If they would rather die,"](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/if-they-would-rather-die/) - "If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population." ~ A Christmas Carol
- ["John, I stand at the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/john-i-stand-at-the/) - "John, I stand at the gangway here, to see every soul on board safe over the side. You shall have the next post of honour, and shall be the last but one to leave the ship. Bring up the passengers, and range them behind me; and put what provision and water you can got at,
- ["If he’s a change, give](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/if-hes-a-change-give/) - "If he’s a change, give me a constancy." ~ Dombey and Son
- [Mr. Arthur Clennam took up](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/mr-arthur-clennam-took-up/) - Mr. Arthur Clennam took up his hat and buttoned his coat, and walked out. In the country, the rain would have developed a thousand fresh scents, and every drop would have had its bright association with some beautiful form of growth or life. In the city, it developed only foul stale smells, and was a
- ["Bring in the bottled lightning,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/bring-in-the-bottled-lightning/) - "Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew." ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- [After that, he drank all](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/after-that-he-drank-all/) - After that, he drank all the rest of the sherry, and Mr. Hubble drank the port, and the two talked (which I have since observed to be customary in such cases) as if they were of quite another race from the deceased, and were notoriously immortal. ~ Great Expectations
- ["Look here! do you see](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/look-here-do-you-see/) - "Look here! do you see this! Isn't it a most wonderful and extraordinary thing that I can't call at a man's house but I find a piece of this poor surgeon's friend on the staircase? I've been lamed with orange-peel once, and I know orange-peel will be my death, or I'll be content to eat
- [Caleb was no sorcerer; but](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/caleb-was-no-sorcerer-but/) - Caleb was no sorcerer; but in the only magic art that still remains to us, the magic of devoted, deathless love, Nature had been the mistress of his study; and, from her teaching, all the wonder came. ~ The Cricket on the Hearth
- ["There is prodigious strength," I](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-is-prodigious-strength-i/) - "There is prodigious strength," I answered him, "in sorrow and despair." ~ A Tale of Two Cities
- [He appeared to enjoy beyond](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/he-appeared-to-enjoy-beyond/) - He appeared to enjoy beyond everything the sound of his own voice. I couldn't wonder at that, for it was mellow and full and gave great importance to every word he uttered. He listened to himself with obvious satisfaction and sometimes gently beat time to his own music with his head or rounded a sentence
- [I loved you madly; in](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-loved-you-madly-in/) - "I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly." ~ The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- [Meanwhile the marriage was appointed](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/meanwhile-the-marriage-was-appointed/) - Meanwhile the marriage was appointed to be solemnized in eight weeks’ time, and Mr. Bounderby went every evening to Stone Lodge as an accepted wooer. Love was made on these occasions in the form of bracelets. ~ Hard Times
- [Had he looked with greater](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/had-he-looked-with-greater/) - Had he looked with greater interest and with a father's eye, he might have read in her keen glance the impulses and fears that made her waver; the passionate desire to run clinging to him, crying, as she hid her face in his embrace, "Oh father, try to love me! there's no one else!" the
- [Christmas was close at hand,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/christmas-was-close-at-hand/) - Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away. ~ The Pickwick Papers
- [Let me see you ride](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/let-me-see-you-ride/) - Let me see you ride a donkey over my green again, and as sure as you have a head upon your shoulders, I'll knock your bonnet off, and tread upon it! ~ David Copperfield
- [When they were all tired](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/when-they-were-all-tired/) - When they were all tired of blind-man's buff, there was a great game at snap-dragon, and when fingers enough were burned with that, and all the raisins were gone, they sat down by the huge fire of blazing lags to a substantial supper, and a mighty bowl of wassail, something smaller than an ordinary wash-house
- [When the moon shines very](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/when-the-moon-shines-very/) - When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life. ~ Bleak House
- [Men were weighed by their](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/men-were-weighed-by-their/) - Men were weighed by their dollars, measures gauged by their dollars; life was auctioneered, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. ~ Martin Chuzzlewit
- ["There are people enough to](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-are-people-enough-to/) - "There are people enough to tread upon me in my lowly state, without my doing outrage to their feelings by possessing learning. Learning ain't for me. A person like myself had better not aspire. If he is to get on in life, he must get on 'umbly, Master Copperfield!" ~ David Copperfield
- [Mr. and Mrs. Boffin sat](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/mr-and-mrs-boffin-sat/) - Mr. and Mrs. Boffin sat staring at mid-air, and Mrs. Wilfer sat silently giving them to understand that every breath she drew required to be drawn with a self-denial rarely paralleled in history. ~ Our Mutual Friend
- [The object of our lives](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-object-of-our-lives/) - "The object of our lives is won. Henceforth let us wear it silently. My lips are closed upon the past from this hour. I forgive you your part in to-morrow's wickedness. May God forgive my own!" ~ Dombey and Son
- [It was a dagger in](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-was-a-dagger-in/) - It was a dagger in the haughty father's heart, an arrow in his brain, to see how the flesh and blood he could not disown clung to this obscure stranger, and he sitting by. Not that he cared to whom his daughter turned, or from whom turned away. The swift sharp agony struck through him,
- [Some of the craftiest scoundrels](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/some-of-the-craftiest-scoundrels/) - Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with heaven, which shall always show a floating balance in their own favour. ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- [So now, as an infallible](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/so-now-as-an-infallible/) - So now, as an infallible way of making little ease great ease, I began to contract a quantity of debt. ~ Great Expectations
- ["All I would say is,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/all-i-would-say-is/) - "All I would say is, that I can go abroad without your family coming forward to favour me, - in short, with a parting Shove of their cold shoulders; and that, upon the whole, I would rather leave England with such impetus as I possess, than derive any acceleration of it from that quarter." ~
- ["How does the world go?](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/how-does-the-world-go/) - "How does the world go? I'll tell you what," he added, in a lower tone, "I shouldn't wish it to be mentioned, but it's a -" here he beckoned to me, and put his lips close to my ear - "it's a mad world. Mad as Bedlam, boy!" said Mr. Dick, taking snuff from a
- [It was the beginning of](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-was-the-beginning-of/) - It was the beginning of a day in June; the deep blue sky unsullied by a cloud, and teeming with brilliant light. The streets were, as yet, nearly free from passengers, the houses and shops were closed, and the healthy air of morning fell like breath from angels, on the sleeping town. ~ The Old
- ["I am one by myself,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-am-one-by-myself/) - "I am one by myself, one," said Mortimer, "high up an awful staircase commanding a burial-ground, and I have a whole clerk to myself, and he has nothing to do but look at the burial-ground, and what he will turn out when arrived at maturity, I cannot conceive. Whether, in that shabby rook's nest, he
- [How Well I Remember](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/how-well-i-remember/) - How well I remember the forlorn aspect of Fleet Street when I came out of the Temple! The street-lamps flickering in the gusty north-east wind, as if the very gas were contorted with cold; the white-topped houses; the bleak, star-lighted sky; the market people and other early stragglers, trotting to circulate their almost frozen blood;
- [Mrs. Boffin, insisting that Bella](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/mrs-boffin-insisting-that-bella/) - Mrs. Boffin, insisting that Bella should make tomorrow's expedition in the chariot, she went home in great grandeur. Mrs. Wilfer and Miss Lavinia had speculated much on the probabilities and improbabilities of her coming in this gorgeous state, and, on beholding the chariot from the window at which they were secreted to look out for
- [It was an instinctive testimony](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-was-an-instinctive-testimony/) - It was an instinctive testimony to Little Dorrit’s worth and difference from all the rest, that the poor young fellow honoured and loved her for being simply what she was. ~ Little Dorrit
- [The host had gone below](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-host-had-gone-below/) - The host had gone below to the cellar, and had brought up bottles of ruby, straw-coloured, and golden drinks, which had ripened long ago in lands where no fogs are, and had since lain slumbering in the shade. Sparkling and tingling after so long a nap, they pushed at their corks to help the corkscrew
- ["I have knocked about harder](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-have-knocked-about-harder/) - "I have knocked about harder than you, and have got along further than you. I have had, all my sea-going life long, to keep my wits polished bright with acid and friction, like the brass cases of the ship’s instruments." ~ A Message from the Sea
- [Suffering has been stronger](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/suffering-has-been-stronger/) - "Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape." ~ Great Expectations
- [It pained me to think](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-pained-me-to-think/) - It pained me to think of the dear old place as altogether abandoned; of the weeds growing tall in the garden, and the fallen leaves lying thick and wet upon the paths. I imagined how the winds of winter would howl round it, how the cold rain would beat upon the window-glass, how the moon
- [It has always been my](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-has-always-been-my/) - It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only one subject is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject. Therefore, in the course of my life I have taught myself whatever I could, and although I am not an educated
- [It was a bleak autumnal](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-was-a-bleak-autumnal/) - It was a bleak autumnal afternoon indeed; and as she walked, and hushed, and, glancing through the dreary windows, pressed the little fellow closer to her breast, the withered leaves came showering down. ~ Dombey and Son
- [The cramped monotony of my](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-cramped-monotony-of-my/) - "The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain." ~ The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- [The One Great Principle](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-one-great-principle/) - The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. ~ Bleak House
- [On the motionless branches of](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/on-the-motionless-branches-of/) - On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels. ~ Martin Chuzzlewit
- [Bob had but fifteen "Bob"](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/bob-had-but-fifteen-bob/) - Bob had but fifteen "Bob" a-week himself; he pocketed on Saturdays but fifteen copies of his Christian name; and yet the Ghost of Christmas Present blessed his four-roomed house! ~ A Christmas Carol
- [With them who stood upon](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/with-them-who-stood-upon/) - With them who stood upon the brink of the great gulf which none can see beyond, Time, so soon to lose itself in vast Eternity, rolled on like a mighty river, swollen and rapid as it nears the sea. ~ Barnaby Rudge
- [Gentle Florence tossed on an](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/gentle-florence-tossed-on-an/) - Gentle Florence tossed on an uneasy sea of doubt and hope; and Mr Carker, like a scaly monster of the deep, swam down below, and kept his shining eye upon her. ~ Dombey and Son
- [For who can wonder that](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/for-who-can-wonder-that/) - For who can wonder that man should feel a vague belief in tales of disembodied spirits wandering through those places which they once dearly affected, when he himself, scarcely less separated from his old world than they, is for ever lingering upon past emotions and bygone times, and hovering, the ghost of his former self,
- [The Beating Of My Heart](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-beating-of-my-heart/) - The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me. ~ Bleak House
- [One thing about this face](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/one-thing-about-this-face/) - One thing about this face was very strange and startling. You could not look upon it in its most cheerful mood without feeling that it had some extraordinary capacity of expressing terror. It was not on the surface. It was in no one feature that it lingered. You could not take the eyes or mouth,
- ["Whence will curses come at](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/whence-will-curses-come-at/) - "Whence will curses come at your command? or what avails a curse or blessing from a man like you? I tell you, that misfortune and discovery are thickening about your head; that the structures you have raised, through all your ill-spent life, are crumbling into dust." ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- [Mrs. Lammle's manner changed under](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/mrs-lammles-manner-changed-under/) - Mrs. Lammle's manner changed under the poor silly girl's embraces, and she turned extremely pale: directing one appealing look, first to Mrs. Boffin, and then to Mr. Boffin. Both understood her instantly, with a more delicate subtlety than much better educated people, whose perception came less directly from the heart, could have brought to bear
- [Everything was fresh and gay,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/everything-was-fresh-and-gay/) - Everything was fresh and gay, as though the world were but that morning made. ~ Barnaby Rudge
- ["But as she grew, and](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/but-as-she-grew-and/) - "But as she grew, and promised to be very beautiful, I gradually did worse, and with my praises, and with my jewels, and with my teachings, and with this figure of myself always before her, a warning to back and point my lessons, I stole her heart away, and put ice in its place." ~
- [He had not much hair.](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/he-had-not-much-hair/) - He had not much hair. One might have fancied he had talked it off; and that what was left, all standing up in disorder, was in that condition from being constantly blown about by his windy boastfulness. ~ Hard Times
- [Fledgeby deserved Mr. Alfred Lammle's](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/fledgeby-deserved-mr-alfred-lammles/) - Fledgeby deserved Mr. Alfred Lammle's eulogium. He was the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of legs. And instinct (a word we all clearly understand) going largely on four legs, and reason always on two, meanness on four legs never attains the perfection of meanness on two. ~ Our Mutual Friend
- [Sir Matthew Pupker went on](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/sir-matthew-pupker-went-on/) - Sir Matthew Pupker went on to say what must be his feelings on that great occasion, and what must be that occasion in the eyes of the world, and what must be the intelligence of his fellow-countrymen before him, and what must be the wealth and respectability of his honourable friends behind him, and lastly,
- ["Whether I shall turn out](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/whether-i-shall-turn-out/) - "Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show." ~ David Copperfield
- [If there were no bad](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/if-there-were-no-bad/) - If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. ~ The Old Curiosity Shop
- [Take nothing on its looks;](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/take-nothing-on-its-looks/) - "Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule." ~ Great Expectations
- ["My advice is, never do](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/my-advice-is-never-do/) - "My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time." ~ David Copperfield
- [That vague kind of penitence](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/that-vague-kind-of-penitence/) - That vague kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning . . . ~ The Old Curiosity Shop
- [Not knowing how he lost](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/not-knowing-how-he-lost/) - Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again. ~ A Tale of Two Cities
- [And from that hour his](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/and-from-that-hour-his/) - And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through which it had since groped, and knew of nothing beyond the Marshalsea. ~ Little Dorrit
- ["But I am sure I](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/but-i-am-sure-i/) - "But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of,
- ["My sister Lizzie," said the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/my-sister-lizzie-said-the/) - "My sister Lizzie," said the boy, proudly, "wants no preparing, Mr. Headstone. What she is, she is, and shows herself to be. There's no pretending about my sister." ~ Our Mutual Friend
- [When was I a child](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/when-was-i-a-child/) - "A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave
- ["And when you had made](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/and-when-you-had-made/) - "And when you had made sure of the poor little fool," said my aunt - "God forgive me that I should call her so, and she gone where YOU won't go in a hurry - because you had not done wrong enough to her and hers, you must begin to train her, must you? begin
- [The rippling of the river](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-rippling-of-the-river/) - The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them asleep if he could, but they were in movement, like the stream, and all tending one way with a strong current. ~ Our Mutual Friend
- [Certain it is that minds,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/certain-it-is-that-minds/) - Certain it is that minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort, and like them, are often successfully cured by remedies in themselves very nauseous and unpalatable. ~ Barnaby Rudge
- [Pride is one of the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/pride-is-one-of-the/) - 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 of two cardinal virtues -- faith and hope. ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- ["It's not put into his](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/its-not-put-into-his/) - "It's not put into his head to be buried. It's put into his head to be made useful. You hold your life on the condition that to the last you shall struggle hard for it. Every man holds a discovery on the same terms." ~ Little Dorrit
- [Flora, always tall, had grown](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/flora-always-tall-had-grown/) - Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much. Flora, whom he had left a lily, had become a peony; but that was not much. Flora, who had seemed enchanting in all she said and thought, was diffuse and silly. That was much. Flora, who
- [Yes! you are the ruin](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/yes-you-are-the-ruin-the/) - "Yes! you are the ruin--the ruin--the ruin--of me. I have no resources in myself, I have no confidence in myself, I have no government of myself when you are near me or in my thoughts. And you are always in my thoughts now. I have never been quit of you since I first saw you.
- [I go so far as](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-go-so-far-as/) - "I go so far as to say, miss, morehover," proceeded Mr. Cruncher, with a most alarming tendency to hold forth as from a pulpit--"and let my words be took down and took to Mrs. Cruncher through yourself--that wot my opinions respectin' flopping has undergone a change, and that wot I only hope with all my
- ["Can you suppose there's any](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/can-you-suppose-theres-any/) - "Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?" ~ The Old Curiosity Shop
- ["Mr. Bazzard's father, being a](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/mr-bazzards-father-being-a/) - "Mr. Bazzard's father, being a Norfolk farmer, would have furiously laid about him with a flail, a pitch-fork, and every agricultural implement available for assaulting purposes, on the slightest hint of his son's having written a play." ~ The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- [There have been occasions in](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-have-been-occasions-in/) - There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance. ~ Great Expectations
- [It was a very Moloch](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-was-a-very-moloch/) - It was a very Moloch of a baby, on whose insatiate altar the whole existence of this particular young brother was offered up a daily sacrifice . . . Wherever childhood congregated to play, there was little Moloch making Johnny fag and toil. Wherever Johnny desired to stay, little Moloch became fractious, and would not
- ["Those darling byegone times, Mr](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/those-darling-byegone-times-mr/) - "Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker," said Cleopatra, "with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated!" ~ Dombey and Son
- [Are not the sane and](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/are-not-the-sane-and/) - Are not the sane and the insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming? Are not all of us outside this hospital, who dream, more or less in the condition of those inside it, every night of our lives? ~ The Uncommercial Traveller - Night Walks
- [We need be careful how](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/we-need-be-careful-how/) - We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts of so much omitted, and so little done-of so many things forgotten, and so many more which might have been repaired! There is no remorse so deep as that which is unavailing; if
- [The Plain Rule Is](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-plain-rule-is/) - The plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to put his foot where he cannot see the ground. ~ Bleak House
- ["I won’t go so far](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-wont-go-so-far/) - "I won’t go so far as to say, that, as it is, I've seen wax-work quite like life, but I’ve certainly seen some life that was exactly like wax-work." ~ The Old Curiosity Shop
- [If a dread of not](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/if-a-dread-of-not/) - If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to which it used to be hidden in mine - which I consider probable, as I have no particular reason to suspect myself of having been a monstrosity - it is the key to
- [It was understood that nothing](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-was-understood-that-nothing/) - It was understood that nothing of a tender nature could possibly be confided to old Barley, by reason of his being totally unequal to the consideration of any subject more psychological than gout, rum, and purser's stores. ~ Great Expectations
- [At the great iron gate](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/at-the-great-iron-gate/) - At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell. ~ Our Mutual Friend
- ["It's in vain, Trot, to](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/its-in-vain-trot-to/) - "It's in vain, Trot, to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present." ~ David Copperfield
- [Opening her eyes again, and](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/opening-her-eyes-again-and/) - Opening her eyes again, and seeing her husband's face across the table, she leaned forward to give it a pat on the cheek, and sat down to supper, declaring it to be the best face in the world. ~ Our Mutual Friend
- [It was a very aged,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-was-a-very-aged/) - It was a very aged, ghostly place; the church had been built many hundreds of years ago, and had once had a convent or monastery attached; for arches in ruins, remains of oriel windows, and fragments of blackened walls, were yet standing-, while other portions of the old building, which had crumbled away and fallen
- [The simple fact was, that](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-simple-fact-was-that/) - The simple fact was, that Oliver, instead of possessing too little feeling, possessed rather too much; and was in a fair way of being reduced, for life, to a state of brutal stupidity and sullenness by the ill usage he had received. ~ Oliver Twist
- [My dear old doll!](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/my-dear-old-doll/) - My dear old doll! I was such a shy little thing that I seldom dared to open my lips, and never dared to open my heart, to anybody else. ~ Bleak House
- [To surround anything, however monstrous](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/to-surround-anything-however-monstrous/) - To surround anything, however monstrous or ridiculous, with an air of mystery, is to invest it with a secret charm, and power of attraction which to the crowd is irresistible. ~ Barnaby Rudge
- [Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/surprises-like-misfortunes-seldom-come/) - Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone. ~ Oliver Twist
- ["The twins no longer derive](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-twins-no-longer-derive/) - "The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts - in short," said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, "they are weaned." ~ David Copperfield
- [I record predictions](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-record-predictions/) - I am . . . joined with eleven others in reporting the debates in Parliament for a Morning Newspaper. Night after night, I record predictions that never come to pass, professions that are never fulfilled, explanations that are only meant to mystify. I wallow in words. ~ David Copperfield
- [Trifles make the sum of](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/trifles-make-the-sum-of/) - Trifles make the sum of life. ~ David Copperfield
- [Ah, Miss, hope is an](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/ah-miss-hope-is-an/) - "Ah, Miss, hope is an excellent thing for such as has the spirits to bear it!" said Mrs Wickam, shaking her head. "My own spirits is not equal to it, but I don't owe it any grudge. I envys them that is so blest!" ~ Dombey and Son
- [It was a foggy day](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-was-a-foggy-day/) - It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking; inanimate London was a sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisible, and so being wholly neither. ~ Our Mutual Friend
- [After Dinner](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/after-dinner/) - "Why, what I may think after dinner," returns Mr. Jobling, "is one thing, my dear Guppy, and what I may think before dinner is another thing." ~ Bleak House
- ["Mind and matter," said the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/mind-and-matter-said-the/) - "Mind and matter," said the lady in the wig, "glide swift into the vortex of immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination." ~ Martin Chuzzlewit
- ["I love you, love you,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-love-you-love-you/) - "I love you, love you, love you! If you were to cast me off now - but you will not - you would never be rid of me. No one should come between us. I would pursue you to the death." ~ The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- [wringing her hands](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/wringing-her-hands/) - When the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides to the fire, and sits down in the chair we have left there, wringing her hands. ~ A Christmas Tree
- ["Ghost of the Future," he](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/ghost-of-the-future-he/) - "Ghost of the Future," he exclaimed, "I fear you more than any spectre I have seen. But as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart.
- [In seclusion, she had secluded](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/in-seclusion-she-had-secluded/) - In seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker. ~ Great Expectations
- [She was more than human](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/she-was-more-than-human/) - She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I don't know what she was - anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink; no looking down, or
- ["A man in public life](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/a-man-in-public-life/) - "A man in public life expects to be sneered at—it is the fault of his elewated sitiwation, and not of himself." ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- [Scrooge was better than his](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/scrooge-was-better-than-his/) - Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or
- [She raised me, sat in](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/she-raised-me-sat-in/) - She raised me, sat in her chair, and standing me before her, said slowly in a cold, low voice--I see her knitted brow and pointed finger--"Your mother, Esther, is your disgrace, and you were hers." ~ Bleak House
- [When men are about to](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/when-men-are-about-to/) - When men are about to commit, or to sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all.
- [The wide stare stared itself](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-wide-stare-stared-itself/) - The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came out in the heavens, and the fire-flies mimicked them in the lower air, as men may feebly imitate the goodness of a better order of beings; the long dusty roads and the interminable
- ["I have been taught to](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-have-been-taught-to/) - "I have been taught to look upon those means, by which men raise themselves to riches and distinction, as being beyond my heeding, and beneath my care. I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing." ~ Barnaby Rudge
- [They ran their heads very](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/they-ran-their-heads-very/) - They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas, instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances. ~ Great Expectations
- [True love believes everything, and](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/true-love-believes-everything-and/) - "True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything." ~ A Message from the Sea
- [My old companion tells me](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/my-old-companion-tells-me/) - My old companion tells me it is midnight. The fire glows brightly, crackling with a sharp and cheerful sound, as if it loved to burn. The merry cricket on the hearth (my constant visitor), this ruddy blaze, my clock, and I, seem to share the world among us, and to be the only things awake.
- [Give me a moment](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/give-me-a-moment/) - "Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy." ~ Our Mutual Friend
- [No public business of any](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/no-public-business-of-any/) - No public business of any kind could possibly be done at any time without the acquiescence of the Circumlocution Office. Its finger was in the largest public pie, and in the smallest public tart. ~ Little Dorrit
- [Mind! I don’t mean to](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/mind-i-dont-mean-to/) - Mind! I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. ~ A Christmas Carol
- [Love, however, is very materially](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/love-however-is-very-materially/) - Love, however, is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory, and will thrive, for a considerable time, on very slight and sparing food. ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- [It is a far, far](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-is-a-far-far/) - It is a far, 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. ~ A Tale of Two Cities
- ["Circumstances may accumulate so strongly](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/circumstances-may-accumulate-so-strongly/) - "Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him." ~ The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- [Mystery and disappointment are not](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/mystery-and-disappointment-are-not/) - Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries. ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- [Poor Mr. Pickwick!  .](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/poor-mr-pickwick/) - Poor Mr. Pickwick! . . . If he played a wrong card, Miss Bolo looked a small armoury of daggers; if he stopped to consider which was the right one, Lady Snuphanuph would throw herself back in her chair, and smile with a mingled glance of impatience and pity to Mrs. Colonel Wugsby, at which
- ["I find my breath gets](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-find-my-breath-gets/) - "I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?" ~ David Copperfield
- [New thoughts and hopes were](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/new-thoughts-and-hopes-were/) - New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing. ~ David Copperfield
- ["Never," said my aunt, "be](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/never-said-my-aunt-be/) - "Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you." ~ David Copperfield
- [Compound Interest](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/compound-interest/) - The father of this pleasant grandfather, of the neighbourhood of Mount Pleasant, was a horny-skinned, two-legged, money-getting species of spider who spun webs to catch unwary flies and retired into holes until they were entrapped. The name of this old pagan's god was Compound Interest. ~ Bleak House
- [The water of the fountain](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-water-of-the-fountain/) - The water of the fountain ran, the swift river ran, the day ran into evening, so much life in the city ran into death according to rule, time and tide waited for no man, the rats were sleeping close together in their dark holes again, the Fancy Ball was lighted up at supper, all things
- ["They'll drill holes in your](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/theyll-drill-holes-in-your/) - "They'll drill holes in your 'art, Magsman, like a Cullender." ~ Going into Society
- ["It opens the lungs, washes](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-opens-the-lungs-washes/) - "It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper," said Mr. Bumble. "So cry away." ~ Oliver Twist
- ["My heart is set, as](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/my-heart-is-set-as/) - "My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope in life, beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind. " ~ Oliver Twist
- [Whatever was required to be](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/whatever-was-required-to-be/) - Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving—HOW NOT TO DO IT. ~ Little Dorrit
- [The night was dark, and](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-night-was-dark-and/) - The night was dark, and a cold wind blew, driving the clouds, furiously and fast, before it. There was one black, gloomy mass that seemed to follow him: not hurrying in the wild chase with the others, but lingering sullenly behind, and gliding darkly and stealthily on. He often looked back at this, and, more
- [The rich, sweet smell of](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-rich-sweet-smell-of/) - The rich, sweet smell of the hayricks rose to his chamber window; the hundred perfumes of the little flower-garden beneath scented the air around; the deep-green meadows shone in the morning dew that glistened on every leaf as it trembled in the gentle air: and the birds sang as if every sparkling drop were a
- [very up-hill and down-hill](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/very-up-hill-and-down-hill/) - I had a latent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution - not for old associations' sake, I am afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very up-hill and down-hill, and very unlike any way in which any man in any natural circumstances of life or death ever expressed
- ["No man knows till the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/no-man-knows-till-the/) - "No man knows till the time comes, what depths are within him. To some men it never comes; let them rest and be thankful! To me, you brought it; on me, you forced it; and the bottom of this raging sea," striking himself upon the breast, "has been heaved up ever since." ~ Our Mutual
- ["It is, as Mr. Rokesmith](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-is-as-mr-rokesmith/) - "It is, as Mr. Rokesmith says, a matter of feeling, but Lor how many matters ARE matters of feeling!" ~ Our Mutual Friend
- ["Rattle me out of bed](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/rattle-me-out-of-bed/) - "Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of
- [After tea, we discussed a](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/after-tea-we-discussed-a/) - After tea, we discussed a variety of topics before the fire; and Mrs. Micawber was good enough to sing us (in a small, thin, flat voice, which I remembered to have considered, when I first knew her, the very table-beer of acoustics) the favourite ballads of "The Dashing White Sergeant", and "Little Tafflin". ~ David
- [Newman cast a despairing glance](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/newman-cast-a-despairing-glance/) - Newman cast a despairing glance at his small store of fuel, but, not having the courage to say no--a word which in all his life he never had said at the right time, either to himself or anyone else--gave way to the proposed arrangement. ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- ["I don't profess to be](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-dont-profess-to-be/) - "I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense." ~ David Copperfield
- [It is not easy to](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-is-not-easy-to/) - It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. ~ Little Dorrit
- ["I have made up my](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-have-made-up-my/) - "I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it." ~ Our Mutual Friend
- ["What lawsuits grow out of](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/what-lawsuits-grow-out-of/) - "What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!" ~ Martin Chuzzlewit
- ["If I dropped a tear](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/if-i-dropped-a-tear/) - "If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head!
- [As to sleep you know](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/as-to-sleep-you-know/) - "As to sleep, you know, I never sleep now. I might be a Watchman, except that I don't get any pay, and he's got nothing on his mind." ~ Dombey and Son
- [Dombey and Son had often](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/dombey-and-son-had-often/) - Dombey and Son had often dealt in hides, but never in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and boarding-schools and books. Mr. Dombey would have reasoned: That a matrimonial alliance with himself must, in the nature of things, be gratifying and honourable to any woman of common sense. That the hope
- [That sort of half—sigh, which,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/that-sort-of-half-sigh-which/) - That sort of half—sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society. ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- [He knew enough of the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/he-knew-enough-of-the/) - He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart. ~ A Tale of Two Cities
- ["Regrets," said Martin, "are the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/regrets-said-martin-are-the/) - "Regrets," said Martin, "are the natural property of grey hairs." ~ Martin Chuzzlewit
- [Around and Around](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/around-and-around/) - Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow. ~ Bleak House
- [Affery, like greater people, had](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/affery-like-greater-people-had/) - Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them. ~ Little Dorrit
- [The light shone up so](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-light-shone-up-so/) - The light shone up so high that I could see the huge Iceberg upon which we had struck, cloven at the top and down the middle, exactly like Penrith Church in my dream. At the same moment I could see the watch last relieved, crowding up and down on deck; I could see Mrs. Atherfield
- [You might, from your appearance](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/you-might-from-your-appearance/) - "You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer. Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman." ~ A Tale of Two Cities
- [Its matter was not new](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/its-matter-was-not-new/) - "Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it." ~ Dombey and Son
- ["No space of regret can](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/no-space-of-regret-can/) - "No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused!" ~ A Christmas Carol
- [In a word, I was](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/in-a-word-i-was/) - In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong. ~ Great Expectations
- [She was too intent upon](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/she-was-too-intent-upon/) - She was too intent upon her work, and too earnest in what she said, and too composed and quiet altogether, to be on the watch for any look he might direct towards her in reply; so the shaft of his ungrateful glance fell harmless, and did not wound her. ~ The Haunted Man
- [Anything that makes a noise](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/anything-that-makes-a-noise/) - Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd. ~ The Old Curiosity Shop
- [Tom gazed at the chair;](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/tom-gazed-at-the-chair/) - Tom gazed at the chair; and, suddenly as he looked at it, a most extraordinary change seemed to come over it. The carving of the back gradually assumed the lineaments and expression of an old shrivelled human face; the damask cushion became an antique, flapped waistcoat; the round knobs grew into a couple of feet,
- [So does the eye of](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/so-does-the-eye-of/) - So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the things it looks upon to bless. ~ Hard Times
- ["She had gained a reputation](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/she-had-gained-a-reputation/) - "She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful." ~ Little Dorrit
- [Any man may be in](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/any-man-may-be-in/) - "Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that." ~ Martin Chuzzlewit
- ["This reminds me, Godmother, to](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/this-reminds-me-godmother-to/) - "This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?" ~ Our Mutual Friend
- ["Hope, you see, Wal'r," said](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/hope-you-see-walr-said/) - "Hope, you see, Wal'r," said the Captain, sagely, "Hope. It's that as animates you. Hope is a buoy, for which you overhaul your Little Warbler, sentimental diwision, but Lord, my lad, like any other buoy, it only floats; it can't be steered nowhere. Along with the figure-head of Hope,' said the Captain, 'there's a anchor;
- [Mrs. Varden was a lady](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/mrs-varden-was-a-lady/) - Mrs. Varden was a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper--a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable. ~ Barnaby Rudge
- [For a long time, no](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/for-a-long-time-no/) - For a long time, no village girl would dress her hair or bosom with the sweetest flower from that field of death: and after many a year had come and gone, the berries growing there, were still believed to leave too deep a stain upon the hand that plucked them. ~ The Battle of Life
- [All through dinner, Flora combined](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/all-through-dinner-flora-combined/) - All through dinner, Flora combined her present appetite for eating and drinking with her past appetite for romantic love, in a way that made Clennam afraid to lift his eyes from his plate; since he could not look towards her without receiving some glance of mysterious meaning or warning, as if they were engaged in
- [For not an orphan](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/for-not-an-orphan/) - "For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love." ~ Dombey and Son
- [Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/darkness-is-cheap-and-scrooge/) - Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it. ~ A Christmas Carol
- [I verily believe that her](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-verily-believe-that-her/) - I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly,—and that is the sharpest crying of all. ~ Great Expectations
- [When he cared to talk,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/when-he-cared-to-talk/) - When he cared to talk, he talked well; but, the cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him. ~ A Tale of Two Cities
- [He was the meekest of](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/he-was-the-meekest-of/) - He was the meekest of his sex, the mildest of little men. He sidled in and out of a room, to take up the less space. He walked as softly as the Ghost in Hamlet, and more slowly. He carried his head on one side, partly in modest depreciation of himself, partly in modest propitiation
- [Young men not being as](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/young-men-not-being-as/) - Young men not being as a class remarkable for modesty or self-denial, especially when there is a lady in the case, when, if they colour at all, it is rather their practice to colour the story, and not themselves. ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- [The rain and hail pattered](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-rain-and-hail-pattered/) - The rain and hail pattered against the glass; the chimneys quaked and rocked; the crazy casement rattled with the wind, as though an impatient hand inside were striving to burst it open. But no hand was there, and it opened no more. ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- [The serjeant was describing a](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-serjeant-was-describing-a/) - The serjeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love-making. A battle was the finest thing in the world—when your side won it—and Englishmen always did that. ~ Barnaby Rudge
- [I never had one hours](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-never-had-one-hours/) - I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death. ~ Great Expectations
- [We are men of secluded](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/we-are-men-of-secluded/) - We are men of secluded habits, with something of a cloud upon our early fortunes, whose enthusiasm, nevertheless, has not cooled with age, whose spirit of romance is not yet quenched, who are content to ramble through the world in a pleasant dream, rather than ever waken again to its harsh realities. We are alchemists
- [Upon the purple tree-tops far](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/upon-the-purple-tree-tops-far/) - Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there was an equal hush. Between the real landscape and its shadow in the water, there was no division; both were so untroubled and clear, and, while so fraught with solemn mystery of life
- [A bell with an old](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/a-bell-with-an-old/) - A bell with an old voice - which I dare say in its time had often said to the house, Here is the green farthingale, Here is the diamond-hilted sword, Here are the shoes with red heels and the blue solitaire, - sounded gravely in the moonlight, and two cherry-coloured maids came fluttering out to
- [Change begets change](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/change-begets-change/) - Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. ~ Martin Chuzzlewit
- [Men who look on nature,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/men-who-look-on-nature/) - Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision. ~ Oliver Twist
- [Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/liberty-equality-fraternity-or-death-the/) - Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death;—the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine! ~ A Tale of Two Cities
- ["Repression is the only lasting](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/repression-is-the-only-lasting/) - "Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend," observed the Marquis, "will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof," looking up to it, "shuts out the sky." ~ A Tale of Two Cities
- ["O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam,"](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/o-mrs-clennam-mrs-clennam/) - "O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and me." ~ Little Dorrit
- [Time and tide will wait](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/time-and-tide-will-wait/) - Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide. ~ Martin Chuzzlewit
- [Indeed the worthy housewife was](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/indeed-the-worthy-housewife-was/) - Indeed the worthy housewife was of such a capricious nature, that she not only attained a higher pitch of genius than Macbeth, in respect of her ability to be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral in an instant, but would sometimes ring the changes backwards and forwards on all possible moods and flights
- [When a man bleeds inwardly,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/when-a-man-bleeds-inwardly/) - When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people. ~ The Pickwick Papers
- [Ah, Miss Harriet, it would](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/ah-miss-harriet-it-would/) - "Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!" ~ Dombey and Son
- [There is no month in](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-is-no-month-in/) - There is no month in the whole year in which nature wears a more beautiful appearance than in the month of August. Spring has many beauties, and May is a fresh and blooming month, but the charms of this time of year are enhanced by their contrast with the winter season. August has no such
- [If the child himself could](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/if-the-child-himself-could/) - If the child himself could have awakened in the night, and seen, gathered about his cradle-curtains, faint reflections of the dreams that other people had of him, they might have scared him, with good reason. But he slumbered on, alike unconscious of the kind intentions of Miss Tox, the wonder of the Major, the early
- ["Every man thinks his own](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/every-man-thinks-his-own/) - "Every man thinks his own geese swans." ~ The Cricket on the Hearth
- [This fine young man had](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/this-fine-young-man-had/) - This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good trait in the common catalogue of debauched vices -- open-handedness -- to be a notable vagabond. But there his griping and penurious habits stepped in; and as one poison will sometimes neutralise another,
- [An evening wind uprose too,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/an-evening-wind-uprose-too/) - An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music. ~ Martin Chuzzlewit
- [O blessed Heaven I says](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/o-blessed-heaven-i-says/) - "O blessed Heaven," I says a crying, "teach me what to say to this broken mortal! I am a poor sinful creetur, and the Judgment is not mine." ~ Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy
- ["Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/somehow-he-gets-thoughtful-sitting/) - "Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and
- ["Oh, Dolf!" she cried.](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/oh-dolf-she-cried/) - "Oh, Dolf!" she cried. "I am so happy that you thought so; I am so grateful that you thought so! For I thought that you were common-looking, Dolf; and so you are, my dear, and may you be the commonest of all sights in my eyes, till you close them with your own good hands.
- [She indulged in melancholy](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/she-indulged-in-melancholy/) - She indulged in melancholy - that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries. ~ Dombey and Son
- [compensate me for the loss](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/compensate-me-for-the-loss/) - "I feel certain that his tale is true. Feeling that certainty, I befriend him. As long as that certainty shall last, I will befriend him. And if any consideration could shake me in this resolve, I should be so ashamed of myself for my meanness, that no man's good opinion - no, nor no woman's
- ["Think! I've got enough to](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/think-ive-got-enough-to/) - "Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking." ~ Bleak House
- [It was in this place,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-was-in-this-place/) - It was in this place, and at this moment, that a strange thing happened to my fancy. I thought it a strange thing then, and I thought it a stranger thing long afterwards. I turned my eyes—a little dimmed by looking up at the frosty light—towards a great wooden beam in a low nook of
- [At last, however, he began](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/at-last-however-he-began/) - At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too. ~ A Christmas Carol
- [I found Uriah reading a](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-found-uriah-reading-a/) - I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he read, and made clammy tracks along the page (or so I fully believed) like a snail. ~ David Copperfield
- [The wind blew--not up the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-wind-blew-not-up-the/) - The wind blew--not up the road or down it, though that's bad enough, but sheer across it . . . For a moment it would die away, and the traveller would begin to delude himself into the belief that, exhausted with its previous fury, it had quietly lain itself down to rest, when, whoo! he
- ["I cannot help it; reason](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-cannot-help-it-reason/) - "I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason--but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner." ~ Our Mutual Friend
- ["Being practical people, we never](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/being-practical-people-we-never/) - "Being practical people, we never allow anybody to scare the birds; and the birds, being practical people too, come about us in myriads." ~ Little Dorrit
- [The nephew revenges himself for](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-nephew-revenges-himself-for/) - The nephew revenges himself for this, by holding his breath and terrifying his kinswoman with the dread belief that he has made up his mind to burst. Regardless of whispers and shakes, he swells and becomes discoloured, and yet again swells and becomes discoloured, until the aunt can bear it no longer, but leads him
- ["I took a good deal](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-took-a-good-deal/) - "I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was wery young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir." ~ The Pickwick Papers
- [My father's eyes had closed](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/my-fathers-eyes-had-closed/) - My father's eyes had closed upon the light of this world six months, when mine opened on it. There is something strange to me, even now, in the reflection that he never saw me; and something stranger yet in the shadowy remembrance that I have of my first childish associations with his white grave-stone in
- [Thus, it comes to pass,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/thus-it-comes-to-pass/) - Thus, it comes to pass, that a certain room in a certain old hall, where a certain bad lord, baronet, knight, or gentleman, shot himself, has certain planks in the floor from which the blood will not be taken out. You may scrape and scrape, as the present owner has done, or plane and plane,
- [An ancient proverb warns us](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/an-ancient-proverb-warns-us/) - An ancient proverb warns us that we should not expect to find old heads upon young shoulders; to which it may be added that we seldom meet with that unnatural combination, but we feel a strong desire to knock them off; merely from an inherent love we have of seeing things in their right places.
- [You are always training yourself](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/you-are-always-training-yourself/) - "You are always training yourself to be, mind and body, as clear as crystal, and you always are, and never change; whereas I am a muddy, solitary, moping weed." ~ The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- [Nothing seemed to be going](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/nothing-seemed-to-be-going/) - Nothing seemed to be going on but the clocks, and they had such drowzy faces, such heavy lazy hands, and such cracked voices that they surely must have been too slow. The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer’s shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked
- [Again the Ghost sped on,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/again-the-ghost-sped-on/) - Again the Ghost sped on, above the black and heaving sea -- on, on -- until, being far away, as he told Scrooge, from any shore, they lighted on a ship. They stood beside the helmsman at the wheel, the look-out in the bow, the officers who had the watch; dark, ghostly figures in their
- [When the wind is blowing](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/when-the-wind-is-blowing/) - When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel. ~ The Long Voyage
- ["There is no wealth," she](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-is-no-wealth-she/) - "There is no wealth," she went on, turning paler as she watched him, while her eyes grew yet more lustrous in their earnestness, "that could buy these words of me, and the meaning that belongs to them. Once cast away as idle breath, no wealth or power can bring them back. I mean them; I
- [It is one of those](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-is-one-of-those/) - It is one of those problems of human nature, which may be noted down, but not solved; -- although Ralph felt no remorse at that moment for his conduct towards the innocent, true-hearted girl; although his libertine clients had done precisely what he had expected, precisely what he most wished, and precisely what would tend
- [To conceal anything from those](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/to-conceal-anything-from-those/) - To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart. ~ Master Humphrey's Clock
- ["I wear the chain I](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-wear-the-chain-i/) - "I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it." ~ A Christmas Carol
- ["I know nothing of philosophical](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-know-nothing-of-philosophical/) - "I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in this world here, where I find myself. And I tell you this, my friend, that there are people (men and women both, unfortunately) who have no good in them--none. That there are people
- [A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/a-brisk-bright-blue-eyed-fellow/) - A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow, a very neat figure and rather under the middle size, never out of the way and never in it . . ~ Wreck of the Golden Mary
- [My father had left a](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/my-father-had-left-a/) - My father had left a small collection of books in a little room upstairs, to which I had access (for it adjoined my own) and which nobody else in our house ever troubled. From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and
- ["Is there no difference," asked](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/is-there-no-difference-asked/) - "Is there no difference," asked Helena, with a little faltering in her manner; "between submission to a generous spirit, and submission to a base or trivial one?" ~ The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- [Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/everything-that-mr-smallweeds-grandfather/) - Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly. ~ Bleak House
- [Nature gives to every time](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/nature-gives-to-every-time/) - Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy, that we can scarcely mark their progress. ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- ["When ladies as young, and](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/when-ladies-as-young-and/) - "When ladies as young, and good, and beautiful as you are," replied the girl steadily, "give away your hearts, love will carry you all lengths--even such as you, who have home, friends, other admirers, everything, to fill them. When such as I, who have no certain roof but the coffin lid, and no friend in
- [Captain Cuttle like all mankind](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/captain-cuttle-like-all-mankind/) - Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock. ~ Dombey and Son
- [Oh Haggard Mind](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/oh-haggard-mind/) - Oh, haggard mind, groping darkly through the past; incapable of detaching itself from the miserable present; dragging its heavy chain of care through imaginary feasts and revels, and scenes of awful pomp; seeking but a moment's rest among the long-forgotten haunts of childhood, and the resorts of yesterday; and dimly finding fear and horror everywhere!
- [The secret was such an](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-secret-was-such-an/) - The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away. ~ Great Expectations
- ["We must meet reverses boldly,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/we-must-meet-reverses-boldly/) - "We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!" ~ David Copperfield
- ["Death doesn't change us more](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/death-doesnt-change-us-more/) - "Death doesn't change us more than life." ~ The Old Curiosity Shop
- [Mr. Pickwick took a seat](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/mr-pickwick-took-a-seat/) - Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed
- ["Vengeance and retribution require a](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/vengeance-and-retribution-require-a/) - "Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule." ~ A Tale of Two Cities
- ["There are strings," said Mr.](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-are-strings-said-mr/) - "There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, flourishing his bread-and-cheese knife in the air, "in the human heart that had better not be wibrated." ~ Barnaby Rudge
- [The citizen preserved](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-citizen-preserved/) - The citizen . . . preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very little for any nobility but that of worth and manhood. ~ Master Humphrey's Clock
- ["You are too young to](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/you-are-too-young-to/) - "You are too young to know how the world changes every day," said Mrs. Creakle, "and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times of our lives." ~
- [It's nothing, returned Mrs Chick](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/its-nothing-returned-mrs-chick/) - "It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change." ~ Dombey and Son
- [From a beetle-haunted kitchen below](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/from-a-beetle-haunted-kitchen-below/) - From a beetle-haunted kitchen below this institution, fumes arose, suggestive of a class of soup which Mr. Grazinglands knew, from painful experience, enfeebles the mind, distends the stomach, forces itself into the complexion, and tries to ooze out at the eyes. ~ The Uncommercial Traveller - Refreshments for Travellers
- [The day was made for](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-day-was-made-for/) - The day was made for laziness, and lying on one's back in green places, and staring at the sky till its brightness forced one to shut one's eyes and go to sleep. ~ The Old Curiosity Shop
- [I had neither the good](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-had-neither-the-good/) - I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my
- [And could I look upon](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/and-could-i-look-upon/) - 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 she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous
- [The lady thus specially presented,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-lady-thus-specially-presented/) - The lady thus specially presented, was a long lean figure, wearing such a faded air that she seemed not to have been made in what linen-drapers call 'fast colours' originally, and to have, by little and little, washed out. ~ Dombey and Son
- ["There is not a man](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-is-not-a-man/) - "There is not a man employed here, standing between myself and the lowest in place (of whom you are very considerate, and with reason, for he is not far off), who wouldn't be glad at heart to see his master humbled: who does not hate him, secretly: who does not wish him evil rather than
- [It was a dark cold](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-was-a-dark-cold/) - It was a dark cold night, with a chill damp wind, which blew the rain heavily against the windows and house fronts. Pools of water had collected in the narrow and little-frequented streets, and as many of the thinly-scattered oil-lamps had been blown out by the violence of the wind, the walk was not only
- [Noah writhed and twisted his](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/noah-writhed-and-twisted-his/) - Noah writhed and twisted his body into an extensive variety of eel-like positions; thereby giving Mr. Bumble to understand that, from the violent and sanguinary onset of Oliver Twist, he had sustained severe internal injury and damage, from which he was at that moment suffering the acutest torture. ~ Oliver Twist
- [He saw that men who](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/he-saw-that-men-who/) - He saw that men who worked hard, and earned their scanty bread with lives of labour, were cheerful and happy; and that to the most ignorant, the sweet face of Nature was a never-failing source of cheerfulness and joy. He saw those who had been delicately nurtured, and tenderly brought up, cheerful under privations, and
- [In the wildness of her](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/in-the-wildness-of-her/) - In the wildness of her sorrow, shame, and terror, the forlorn girl hurried through the sunshine of a bright morning, as if it were the darkness of a winter night. Wringing her hands and weeping bitterly, insensible to everything but the deep wound in her breast, stunned by the loss of all she loved, left
- [But Rosa soon made the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/but-rosa-soon-made-the/) - But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds. ~ The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- [Wretch rejoined Nicholas fiercely](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/wretch-rejoined-nicholas-fiercely-touch/) - "Wretch," rejoined Nicholas, fiercely, "touch him at your peril! I will not stand by, and see it done. My blood is up, and I have the strength of ten such men as you. Look to yourself, for by Heaven I will not spare you, if you drive me on!" ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- ["I am the only child](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-am-the-only-child/) - "I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence. Strict people as the phrase is, professors of a stern religion, their very religion was a gloomy sacrifice of tastes and sympathies that were never their own, offered up
- [Also, when we played at](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/also-when-we-played-at/) - Also, when we played at cards Miss Havisham would look on, with a miserly relish of Estella's moods, whatever they were. And sometimes, when her moods were so many and so contradictory of one another that I was puzzled what to say or do, Miss Havisham would embrace her with lavish fondness, murmuring something in
- ["If Natur has gifted a](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/if-natur-has-gifted-a/) - "If Natur has gifted a man with powers of argeyment, a man has a right to make the best of 'em, and has not a right to stand on false delicacy, and deny that he is so gifted; for that is a turning of his back on Natur, a flouting of her, a slighting of
- [Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on.](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/jarndyce-and-jarndyce-drones-on/) - Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least, but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes without coming to a total
- [She dotes on poetry sir](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/she-dotes-on-poetry-sir/) - "She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her `Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir." ~ The Pickwick Papers
- [The worst class of sum](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-worst-class-of-sum/) - The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own. ~ Little Dorrit
- [The wit of the Counting-House](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-wit-of-the-counting-house/) - The wit of the Counting-House became in a moment as mute as the row of leathern fire-buckets hanging up behind him. Such vapid and flat daylight as filtered through the ground-glass windows and skylights, leaving a black sediment upon the panes, showed the books and papers, and the figures bending over them, enveloped in a
- [Old Mr. Rarx was not](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/old-mr-rarx-was-not/) - Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time. ~ Wreck of the Golden Mary
- [The lights in the great](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-lights-in-the-great/) - The lights in the great factories, which looked, when they were illuminated, like Fairy palaces—or the travellers by express-train said so—were all extinguished; and the bells had rung for knocking off for the night, and had ceased again; and the Hands, men and women, boy and girl, were clattering home. ~ Hard Times
- [Recollections of the past and](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/recollections-of-the-past-and/) - Recollections of the past and visions of the present come to bear me company; the meanest man to whom I have ever given alms appears, to add his mite of peace and comfort to my stock; and whenever the fire within me shall grow cold, to light my path upon this earth no more, I
- [A blight had fallen on](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/a-blight-had-fallen-on/) - A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had prevailed all day, sighed heavily from time to time, as though foretelling in grief the ravages of the coming storm. The bat skimmed in fantastic flights through the heavy air, and the ground
- [true gentleman at heart](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/true-gentleman-at-heart/) - It is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself. ~
- [I have been very fortunate](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-have-been-very-fortunate/) - I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its
- [When the Devil goeth about](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/when-the-devil-goeth-about/) - When the Devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he goeth about in a shape by which few but savages and hunters are attracted. But, when he is trimmed, smoothed, and varnished, according to the mode; when he is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as
- [The sun does not shine](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-sun-does-not-shine/) - "The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it." ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- ["People can't die, along the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/people-cant-die-along-the/) - "People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll
- ["I have had my share](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-have-had-my-share/) - "I have had my share of sorrows--more than the common lot, perhaps, but I have borne them ill. I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed with all God's great creation." ~ Barnaby Rudge
- [But, for all that, they](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/but-for-all-that-they/) - But, for all that, they had a very pleasant walk. The trees were bare of leaves, and the river was bare of water-lilies; but the sky was not bare of its beautiful blue, and the water reflected it, and a delicious wind ran with the stream, touching the surface crisply. ~ Our Mutual Friend
- [Death, fires, and burglary, make](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/death-fires-and-burglary-make/) - Death, fires, and burglary, make all men equals. ~ Oliver Twist
- [Indifferent Parent](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/indifferent-parent/) - "The universe," he observed, "makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid." ~ Bleak House
- ["I don't quite recollect how](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-dont-quite-recollect-how/) - "I don't quite recollect how many tumblers of whiskey toddy each man drank after supper; but this I know, that about one o'clock in the morning, the baillie's grown-up son became insensible while attempting the first verse of 'Willie brewed a peck o' maut'; and he having been, for half an hour before, the only
- [And it was a very](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/and-it-was-a-very/) - And it was a very uncommon kind of torch, for once or twice when there were angry words between some dinner-carriers who had jostled each other, he shed a few drops of water on them from it, and their good humour was restored directly. For they said, it was a shame to quarrel upon Christmas
- [Mrs. Joe was a very](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/mrs-joe-was-a-very/) - Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. ~ Great Expectations
- [She was a widow, but](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/she-was-a-widow-but/) - She was a widow, but years ago had passed through her state of weeds, and burst into flower again; and in full bloom she had continued ever since; and in full bloom she was now; with roses on her ample skirts, and roses on her bodice, roses in her cap, roses in her cheeks,--aye, and
- [It Is Not My Desire](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-is-not-my-desire/) - "It is not my desire to wound the feelings of any person with whom I am connected in family bonds. I may be a hypocrite," said Mr. Pecksniff, cuttingly, "but I am not a brute." ~ Martin Chuzzlewit
- [He was bolder in the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/he-was-bolder-in-the/) - He was bolder in the daylight--most men are. ~ The Pickwick Papers
- [Oh Agnes, Oh my soul,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/oh-agnes-oh-my-soul/) - Oh Agnes, Oh my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when realities are melting from me, like the shadows which I now dismiss, still find thee near me, pointing upward! ~ David Copperfield
- [There were many many blessings](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-were-many-many-blessings/) - There were many many blessings that he had inadequately felt, there were many trivial injuries that he had not forgiven, there was love that he had but poorly returned, there was friendship that he had too lightly prized: there were a million kind words that he might have spoken, a million kind looks that he
- [There was a frosty rime](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-was-a-frosty-rime/) - There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands. Withered leaves crackled and snapped beneath his feet, as he crept softly on towards the house. The desolation of a winter night sat brooding on the earth, and in the
- [An unfinished coffin on black](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/an-unfinished-coffin-on-black/) - An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him
- [The changes of a fevered](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-changes-of-a-fevered/) - The changes of a fevered room are slow and fluctuating; but the changes of the fevered world are rapid and irrevocable. ~ Little Dorrit
- ["Your Honour, unless your Honour,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/your-honour-unless-your-honour/) - "Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!" ~ The Uncommercial Traveller - Nurse's Stories
- [Melancholy Truth](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/melancholy-truth/) - It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. ~ Bleak House
- [These sequestered nooks are the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/these-sequestered-nooks-are-the/) - These sequestered nooks are the public offices of the legal profession, where writs are issued, judgments signed, declarations filed, and numerous other ingenious machines put in motion for the torture and torment of His Majesty's liege subjects, and the comfort and emolument of the practitioners of the law. ~ The Pickwick Papers
- [The flowers that sleep by](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-flowers-that-sleep-by/) - The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power. ~ The Old Curiosity Shop
- [When I have heard him](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/when-i-have-heard-him/) - When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself. ~ Little Dorrit
- ["But I am thinking like](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/but-i-am-thinking-like/) - "But I am thinking like a lover, or like an ass: which I suppose is pretty nearly the same." ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- [It was a long and](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-was-a-long-and/) - It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets. ~ David Copperfield
- ["I will honour Christmas in](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-will-honour-christmas-in/) - "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on
- ["It is," says Chadband, "the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-is-says-chadband-the/) - "It is," says Chadband, "the ray of rays, the sun of suns, the moon of moons, the star of stars. It is the light of Terewth." ~ Bleak House
- ["Some people are nobody's enemies](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/some-people-are-nobodys-enemies/) - "Some people are nobody's enemies but their own." ~ Oliver Twist
- [They enter, locking themselves in,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/they-enter-locking-themselves-in/) - They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but
- [From these cities they would](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/from-these-cities-they-would/) - From these cities they would go on again, by the roads of vines and olives, through squalid villages, where there was not a hovel without a gap in its filthy walls, not a window with a whole inch of glass or paper; where there seemed to be nothing to support life, nothing to eat, nothing
- [It was an ill-timed thought,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-was-an-ill-timed-thought/) - It was an ill-timed thought, bad for the dark mood of his mind. It was an angry thought, goading him to some avenging act, that should change the cheerful house into a haunted place which lonely travellers would dread to pass by night; and where the timid would see shadows struggling in the ruined windows
- [I had seen the damp](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-had-seen-the-damp/) - I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief. ~ Great Expectations
- [There are very few moments](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-are-very-few-moments/) - There are very few moments in a man’s existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat. ~ The Pickwick Papers
- ["A multitude of people, and](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/a-multitude-of-people-and/) - "A multitude of people, and yet a solitude!" ~ A Tale of Two Cities
- [In particular, there was a](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/in-particular-there-was-a/) - In particular, there was a butler in a blue coat and bright buttons, who gave quite a winey flavour to the table beer; he poured it out so superbly. ~ Dombey and Son
- ["Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/madam-replied-mr-micawber-it/) - "Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future." ~ David Copperfield
- [How slight a thing will](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/how-slight-a-thing-will/) - How slight a thing will disturb the equanimity of our frail minds! ~ Oliver Twist
- [Curiosity is, and has been](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/curiosity-is-and-has-been/) - Curiosity is, and has been from the creation of the world, a master-passion. To awaken it, to gratify it by slight degrees, and yet leave something always in suspense, is to establish the surest hold that can be had, in wrong, on the unthinking portion of mankind. ~ Barnaby Rudge
- [The more he thought, the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-more-he-thought-the/) - The more he thought, the more perplexed he was; and the more he endeavoured not to think, the more he thought. ~ A Christmas Carol
- ["Lord keep my memory green!"](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/lord-keep-my-memory-green/) - "Lord keep my memory green!" ~ The Haunted Man
- [He did each single thing,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/he-did-each-single-thing/) - He did each single thing, as if he did nothing else. ~ Dombey and Son
- [Some medical beast had revived](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/some-medical-beast-had-revived/) - Some medical beast had revived tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard; having a belief in its virtues correspondent to its nastiness. At the best of times, so much of this elixir was administered to me as a choice restorative, that I
- [The man who now confronted](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-man-who-now-confronted/) - The man who now confronted Gashford, was a squat, thickset personage, with a low, retreating forehead, a coarse shock head of hair, and eyes so small and near together, that his broken nose alone seemed to prevent their meeting and fusing into one of the usual size. ~ Barnaby Rudge
- [I saw that everything within](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-saw-that-everything-within/) - I saw that everything within my view which ought to be white, had been white long ago, and had lost its lustre and was faded and yellow. I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her
- [As the gloom and shadow](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/as-the-gloom-and-shadow/) - As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, - or out of it there came, by some unreal, unsubstantial process - not to be traced by any human sense, - an awful likeness of himself! ~ The Haunted Man
- [There was no wind; there](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-was-no-wind-there/) - There was no wind; there was no passing shadow on the deep shade of the night; there was no noise. The city lay behind hIm, lighted here and there, and starry worlds were hidden by the masonry of spire and roof that hardly made out any shapes against the sky. Dark and lonely distance lay
- [And there, with an aching](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/and-there-with-an-aching/) - And there, with an aching void in his young heart, and all outside so cold, and bare, and strange, Paul sat as if he had taken life unfurnished, and the upholsterer were never coming. ~ Dombey and Son
- ["Death and lightning!" exclaimed the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/death-and-lightning-exclaimed-the/) - "Death and lightning!" exclaimed the young gentleman, laying his hand upon his sword as my uncle entered the coach. "Blood and thunder!" roared the other gentleman. With this, he whipped his sword out, and made a lunge at my uncle without further ceremony. ~ The Pickwick Papers
- ["I'd lay down my life](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/id-lay-down-my-life/) - "I'd lay down my life for her - Mas'r Davy - Oh! most content and cheerful! She's more to me - gent'lmen - than - she's all to me that ever I can want, and more than ever I - than ever I could say. I - I love her true. There ain't a gent'lman
- [Mine ain't a selfish affection](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/mine-aint-a-selfish-affection/) - "Mine ain't a selfish affection, you know," said Mr. Toots, in the confidence engendered by his having been a witness of the Captain's tenderness. "It's the sort of thing with me, Captain Gills, that if I could be run over - or - or trampled upon - or - or thrown off a very high
- [For all that the child](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/for-all-that-the-child/) - For all that the child observed, and felt, and thought, that night - the present and the absent; what was then and what had been - were blended like the colours in the rainbow, or in the plumage of rich birds when the sun is shining on them, or in the softening sky when the
- ["Esther, it's enough to make](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/esther-its-enough-to-make/) - "Esther, it's enough to make anybody but me jealous," said Caddy, laughing and shaking her head; "but it only makes me joyful, for you are the first friend I ever had, and the best friend I ever can have, and nobody can respect and love you too much to please me." ~ Bleak House
- [We owed so much to](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/we-owed-so-much-to/) - We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me. ~ Great Expectations
- [When these shadows brought into](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/when-these-shadows-brought-into/) - When these shadows brought into the minds of older people, other thoughts, and showed them different images. When they stole from their retreats, in the likenesses of forms and faces from the past, from the grave, from the deep, deep gulf, where the things that might have been, and never were, are always wandering. ~
- [The crowds in the streets,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-crowds-in-the-streets/) - The crowds in the streets, the lights in the shops and balconies, the elegance, variety, and beauty of their decorations, the number of the theatres, the brilliant cafes with their windows thrown up high and their vivacious groups at little tables on the pavement, the light and glitter of the houses turned as it were
- [To bring deserving things down](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/to-bring-deserving-things-down/) - To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it. ~ Little Dorrit
- [Stranger, pause and ask thyself](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/stranger-pause-and-ask-thyself/) - Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire. ~ The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- [Her look at her father,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/her-look-at-her-father/) - Her look at her father, half admiring him and proud of him, half ashamed for him, all devoted and loving, went to his inmost heart. ~ Little Dorrit
- [The Barnacles were a very](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-barnacles-were-a-very/) - The Barnacles were a very high family, and a very large family. They were dispersed all over the public offices, and held all sorts of public places. Either the nation was under a load of obligation to the Barnacles, or the Barnacles were under a load of obligation to the nation. It was not quite
- [I was always treated as](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-was-always-treated-as/) - I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends ~ Great Expectations
- ["Why, on this day, the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/why-on-this-day-the/) - "Why, on this day, the great battle was fought on this ground. On this ground where we now sit, where I saw my two girls dance this morning, where the fruit has just been gathered for our eating from these trees, the roots of which are struck in Men, not earth, - so many lives
- [Miss Knag still aimed at](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/miss-knag-still-aimed-at/) - Miss Knag still aimed at youth, although she had shot beyond it, years ago. ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- [Seasonable tokens are about.](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/seasonable-tokens-are-about/) - Seasonable tokens are about. Red berries shine here and there in the lattices of Minor Canon Corner; Mr. and Mrs. Tope are daintily sticking sprigs of holly into the carvings and sconces of the Cathedral stalls, as if they were sticking them into the coat-button-holes of the Dean and Chapter. Lavish profusion is in the
- [Although a man may lose](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/although-a-man-may-lose/) - Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares. ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- [In the moonlight which is](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/in-the-moonlight-which-is/) - In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is—as the light called human life is—at its coming and its going. ~ A Tale of Two Cities
- [He held the respectable office](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/he-held-the-respectable-office/) - He held the respectable office of general spy and informer in the establishment, for which volunteer service he received a present at Christmas, over and above his weekly wage. He had grown into an extremely clear-headed, cautious, prudent young man, who was safe to rise in the world. His mind was so exactly regulated, that
- ["The pain of parting is](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-pain-of-parting-is/) - "The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again." ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- [The expression of a man's](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-expression-of-a-mans/) - The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech; but the countenance of Newman Noggs, in his ordinary moods, was a problem which no stretch of ingenuity could solve. ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- [Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/notwithstanding-his-very-liberal-laudation/) - Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former. ~ Dombey and Son
- [I have in my day](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-have-in-my-day/) - I have in my day been caught in the palm of a female hand by the crown, have been violently scrubbed from the neck to the roots of the hair as a purification for the Temple. ~ The Uncommercial Traveller- City of London Churches
- ["Lookee here, Pip, at what](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/lookee-here-pip-at-what/) - "Lookee here, Pip, at what is said to you by a true friend. Which this to you the true friend say. If you can't get to be oncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. So don't tell no more on 'em, Pip, and live well and die happy." ~
- ["Oh! for God's sake let](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/oh-for-gods-sake-let/) - "Oh! for God's sake let me go!" cried Oliver; "let me run away and die in the fields. I will never come near London; never, never! Oh! pray have mercy on me, and do not make me steal. For the love of all the bright Angels that rest in Heaven, have mercy upon me!" ~
- [A brilliant morning shines on](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/a-brilliant-morning-shines-on/) - A brilliant morning shines on the old city. Its antiquities and ruins are surpassingly beautiful, with a lusty ivy gleaming in the sun, and the rich trees waving in the balmy air. Changes of glorious light from moving boughs, songs of birds, scents from gardens, woods, and fields - or, rather, from the one great
- ["There are books of which](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-are-books-of-which/) - "There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts." ~ Oliver Twist
- ["Drat that boy," interposed my](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/drat-that-boy-interposed-my/) - "Drat that boy," interposed my sister, frowning at me over her work, "what a questioner he is. Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies." ~ Great Expectations
- [Her heart is given him](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/her-heart-is-given-him-with/) - "Her heart--is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or, better than that, die for him. She knows he has failings, but she thinks they have grown up through his being like one cast away, for the want of something to trust in, and care for, and think
- [Mystery is not young, not](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/mystery-is-not-young-not/) - Mystery is not young, not pretty, though still of an average candle-light passability; but she does such miracles in her own behalf, that, one of these days, when she dies, they’ll be amazed to find an old woman in her bed, distantly like her. ~ A Flight
- [There is a drowsy state,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-is-a-drowsy-state/) - There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and yourself half conscious of everything that is passing around you, than you would in five nights with your eyes fast closed, and your senses wrapt in perfect unconsciousness. At such time, a mortal
- [Pip dear old chap life](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/pip-dear-old-chap-life/) - "Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man's a blacksmith, and one's a whitesmith, and one's a goldsmith, and one's a coppersmith. Diwisions among such must come, and must be met as they come. If there's been any fault at all to-day,
- [Herein lay the spring of](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/herein-lay-the-spring-of/) - Herein lay the spring of the mechanical art and mystery of educating the reason without stooping to the cultivation of the sentiments and affections. Never wonder. By means of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, settle everything somehow, and never wonder. ~ Hard Times
- [Lizzie Hexam very softly raised](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/lizzie-hexam-very-softly-raised/) - Lizzie Hexam very softly raised the weather-stained grey head, and lifted her as high as Heaven. ~ Our Mutual Friend
- [There lives at least one](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-lives-at-least-one/) - "There lives at least one being who can never change--one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your happiness--who lives but in your eyes--who breathes but in your smiles--who bears the heavy burden of life itself only for you." ~ The Pickwick Papers
- [Skewered Through and Through](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/skewered-through-and-through/) - Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape. ~ David Copperfield
- ["A truly refined mind will](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/a-truly-refined-mind-will/) - "A truly refined mind will seem to be ignorant of the existence of anything that is not perfectly proper, placid, and pleasant." ~ Little Dorrit
- [If you could say, with](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/if-you-could-say-with/) - "If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!' your seventy-eight years would be
- [It was the same dark](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-was-the-same-dark/) - It was the same dark place as ever: every room dismal and silent as it was wont to be, and every ghostly article of furniture in its customary place. The iron heart of the grim old clock, undistributed by all the noise without, still beat heavily within its dusty case; the tottering presses slunk from
- ["When you have once gone](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/when-you-have-once-gone/) - "When you have once gone into Society, you mustn’t come out of it.” ~ Going into Society
- [It is a silent, shady](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-is-a-silent-shady/) - It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down. ~ Master Humphrey's Clock
- [There might have been twenty](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-might-have-been-twenty/) - There might have been twenty people there, young and old, but they all played, and so did Scrooge; for, wholly forgetting in the interest he had in what was going on, that his voice made no sound in their ears, he sometimes came out with his guess quite loud, and very often guessed quite right,
- ["If the law supposes that,'](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/if-the-law-supposes-that/) - "If the law supposes that,' said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is a ass--a idiot. If that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience--by experience." ~ Oliver Twist
- [The sea did what it](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-sea-did-what-it/) - The sea did what it liked, and what it liked was destruction. It thundered at the town, and thundered at the cliffs, and brought the coast down, madly. ~ A Tale of Two Cities
- [The rooks were sailing about](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-rooks-were-sailing-about/) - The rooks were sailing about the cathedral towers; and the towers themselves, overlooking many a long unaltered mile of the rich country and its pleasant streams, were cutting the bright morning air, as if there were no such thing as change on earth. Yet the bells, when they sounded, told me sorrowfully of change in
- ["Let’s be a comfortable couple,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/lets-be-a-comfortable-couple/) - "Let’s be a comfortable couple, and take care of each other! And if we should get deaf, or lame, or blind, or bed-ridden, how glad we shall be that we have somebody we are fond of, always to talk to and sit with!" ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- [But the river had an](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/but-the-river-had-an/) - But the river had an awful look, the buildings on the banks were muffled in black shrouds, and the reflected lights seemed to originate deep in the water, as if the spectres of suicides were holding them to show where they went down. ~ The Uncommercial Traveller - Night Walks
- [Others had been a little](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/others-had-been-a-little/) - Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness. ~ Wreck of the Golden Mary
- [The shadows of our own](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-shadows-of-our-own/) - The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed. ~ Barnaby Rudge
- [Huge knots of sea-weed hung](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/huge-knots-of-sea-weed-hung/) - Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crumbling away, but telling us proudly of its own might and strength, as
- [The church was old and](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-church-was-old-and/) - The church was old and grey, with ivy clinging to the walls, and round the porch. Shunning the tombs, it crept about the mounds, beneath which slept poor humble men: twining for them the first wreaths they had ever won, but wreaths less liable to wither and far more lasting in their kind, than some
- [It is when our budding](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-is-when-our-budding/) - It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished. ~ Dombey and Son
- [Here's the rule for bargains](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/heres-the-rule-for-bargains/) - "Here's the rule for bargains. 'Do other men, for they would do you.' That's the true business precept." ~ Martin Chuzzlewit
- [The village street was like](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-village-street-was-like/) - The village street was like most other village streets: wide for its height, silent for its size, and drowsy in the dullest degree. ~ Tom Tiddler's Ground
- [It was the momentary yielding](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-was-the-momentary-yielding/) - It was the momentary yielding of a nature that had been disappointed from the dawn of its perceptions, but had not quite given up all its hopeful yearnings yet. ~ Little Dorrit
- [I looked at the stars,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-looked-at-the-stars/) - I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude. ~ Great Expectations
- [Love is in all things](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/love-is-in-all-things/) - Love is in all things a most wonderful teacher. ~ Our Mutual Friend
- [In love of home, the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/in-love-of-home-the/) - In love of home, the love of country has its rise. ~ The Old Curiosity Shop
- [Chateau and hut stone face](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/chteau-and-hut-stone-face/) - Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well--thousands of acres of land--a whole province of France--all France itself--lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hairbreadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie
- ["But when the George the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/but-when-the-george-the/) - "But when the George the Second drove ashore, Uncle, on the coast of Cornwall, in a dismal gale, two hours before daybreak, on the fourth of March, 'seventy-one, she had near two hundred horses aboard; and the horses breaking loose down below, early in the gale, and tearing to and fro, and trampling each other
- [The cold hoarfrost glistened on](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-cold-hoarfrost-glistened-on/) - The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover, that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by
- ["A new heart for a](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/a-new-heart-for-a/) - "A new heart for a New Year, always!" ~ The Chimes: A Goblin Story
- [It being a part of](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-being-a-part-of/) - It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster. ~ Dombey and Son
- ["You fear the world too](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/you-fear-the-world-too/) - "You fear the world too much," she answered, gently. "All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you." ~ A Christmas Carol
- [Friendless I can never be,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/friendless-i-can-never-be/) - Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family. ~ Master Humphrey's Clock
- [Under none of the accredited](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/under-none-of-the-accredited/) - Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with the house which is the subject of this Christmas piece. I saw it in the daylight, with the sun upon it. There was no wind, no rain, no lightning, no thunder, no awful
- ["A heart well worth winning,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/a-heart-well-worth-winning/) - "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." ~ Our Mutual Friend
- ["That sort of people.](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/that-sort-of-people/) - "That sort of people. - Are they really animals and clods, and beings of another order? I want to know SO much." ~ David Copperfield
- [She was truest to them](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/she-was-truest-to-them/) - She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be. ~ A Tale of Two Cities
- [It is not possible to](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-is-not-possible-to/) - It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world; but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by, and I know right well that any good that intermixed itself with my apprenticeship came of plain contented
- [I came here expecting an](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-came-here-expecting-an/) - "I came here expecting an adventure, and prepared to go through with any. If there be aught that I can do to help or aid you, name it, and on the faith of a man who can be secret and trusty, I will stand by you to the death." ~ Master Humphrey's Clock
- [A prison taint was on](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/a-prison-taint-was-on/) - A prison taint was on everything there. The imprisoned air, the imprisoned light, the imprisoned damps, the imprisoned men, were all deteriorated by confinement. As the captive men were faded and haggard, so the iron was rusty, the stone was slimy, the wood was rotten, the air was faint, the light was dim. Like a
- ["Oh Sairey, Sairey, little do](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/oh-sairey-sairey-little-do/) - "Oh Sairey, Sairey, little do we know wot lays afore us!" ~ Martin Chuzzlewit
- [Natural affections and instincts](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/natural-affections-and-instincts/) - "Natural affections and instincts, my dear sir, are the most beautiful of the Almighty's works, but like other beautiful works of His, they must be reared and fostered, or it is as natural that they should be wholly obscured, and that new feelings should usurp their place, as it is that the sweetest productions of
- [Poetry's unnat'ral no man ever](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/poetrys-unnatral-no-man-ever/) - "Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day, or Warren's blackin' or Rowland's oil, or some o' them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy." ~ The Pickwick Papers
- [A mist of home-brewed marvel](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/a-mist-of-home-brewed-marvel/) - A mist of home-brewed marvel and romance surrounded Mopes, in which (as in all fogs) the real proportions of the real object were extravagantly heightened. He had murdered his beautiful beloved in a fit of jealousy and was doing penance; he had made a vow under the influence of grief; he had made a vow
- ["My daughter, there are times](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/my-daughter-there-are-times/) - "My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight." ~ Our Mutual Friend
- [A tranquil summer sunset shone](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/a-tranquil-summer-sunset-shone/) - A tranquil summer sunset shone upon him as he approached the end of his walk, and passed through the meadows by the river side. He had that sense of peace, and of being lightened of a weight of care, which country quiet awakens in the breasts of dwellers in towns. ~ Little Dorrit
- [Sadly sadly the sun rose](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/sadly-sadly-the-sun-rose/) - Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning him-self to let it eat him away. ~ A Tale of Two Cities
- [But charity begins at home,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/but-charity-begins-at-home/) - But charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. ~ Martin Chuzzlewit
- [Drink with me, my dear](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/drink-with-me-my-dear/) - "Drink with me, my dear," said Mr. Weller. "Put your lips to this here tumbler, and then I can kiss you by deputy." ~ The Pickwick Papers
- [Heaven above was blue, and](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/heaven-above-was-blue-and/) - Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds poured forth their songs from the shady trees; the lark soared high above the waving corn; and the deep buzz of insects filled the air. ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- [Not only is the day](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/not-only-is-the-day/) - Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia creeper on the Cathedral wall has showered half its deep-red leaves down on the pavement. There has been rain this afternoon, and a wintry shudder goes among the little pools on
- [Accidents will occur in the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/accidents-will-occur-in-the/) - "Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families." ~ David Copperfield
- [Heaven knows we need never](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/heaven-knows-we-need-never/) - Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. ~ Great Expectations
- ["I know quite enough of](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-know-quite-enough-of/) - "I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance." ~ Our Mutual Friend
- [The melancholy which had seemed](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-melancholy-which-had-seemed/) - The melancholy which had seemed to the sad eyes of the anxious boy to hang, for days past, over every object, beautiful as all were, was dispelled by magic. The dew seemed to sparkle more brightly on the green leaves; the air to rustle among them with a sweeter music; and the sky itself to
- ["If you were free to-day,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/if-you-were-free-to-day/) - "If you were free to-day, to-morrow, yesterday, can even I believe that you would choose a dowerless girl—you who, in your very confidence with her, weigh everything by Gain: or, choosing her, if for a moment you were false enough to your one guiding principle to do so, do I not know that your repentance
- [Joy and grief were mingled](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/joy-and-grief-were-mingled/) - Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief itself arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain. ~ Oliver Twist
- [Now, Bella suspected by this](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/now-bella-suspected-by-this/) - Now, Bella suspected by this time that Mr. Rokesmith admired her. Whether the knowledge (for it was rather that than suspicion) caused her to incline to him a little more, or a little less, than she had done at first; whether it rendered her eager to find out more about him, because she sought to
- [Of all the ruinous and](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/of-all-the-ruinous-and/) - Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room
- [Let them be.  Let](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/let-them-be-let/) - Let them be. Let them lie unspoken of, in his breast. However distinctly or indistinctly he entertained these thoughts, he arrived at the conclusion, Let them be. Among the mighty store of wonderful chains that are for ever forging, day and night, in the vast iron-works of time and circumstance, there was one chain forged
- [The leprosy of unreality disfigured](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-leprosy-of-unreality-disfigured/) - The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance. ~ A Tale of Two Cities
- [A Word In Earnest](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/a-word-in-earnest/) - "A word in earnest is as good as a speech." ~ Bleak House
- ["Well," said my aunt, "this](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/well-said-my-aunt-this/) - "Well," said my aunt, "this is his boy - his son. He would be as like his father as it's possible to be, if he was not so like his mother, too." ~ David Copperfield
- [In that giddy whirl of](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/in-that-giddy-whirl-of/) - In that giddy whirl of noise and confusion, the men were delirious. Who thought of money, ruin, or the morrow, in the savage intoxication of the moment? ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- [Every inch of the existence](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/every-inch-of-the-existence/) - Every inch of the existence of mankind, from birth to death, was to be a bargain across a counter. And if we didn’t get to Heaven that way, it was not a politico-economical place, and we had no business there. ~ Hard Times
- ["I am the Ghost of](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-am-the-ghost-of/) - "I am the Ghost of Christmas Present," said the Spirit. "Look upon me!" ~ A Christmas Carol
- [The speaker, and the schoolmaster,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-speaker-and-the-schoolmaster/) - The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels then and there arranged in order, ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim. ~ Hard Times
- ["My good fellow," retorted Mr.](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/my-good-fellow-retorted-mr/) - "My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't know. I've sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps." ~ Our Mutual Friend
- [For gold conjures up](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/for-gold-conjures-up/) - For gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal. ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- ["I saw her, in the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-saw-her-in-the/) - "I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man. ~ The Haunted Man
- [I know enough of the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-know-enough-of-the/) - I know enough of the world now, to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything. ~ David Copperfield
- [I Hope For Better Things](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-hope-for-better-things/) - "Walter," she said, looking full upon him with her affectionate eyes, "like you, I hope for better things. I will pray for them, and believe that they will arrive." ~ Dombey and Son
- [None of us clearly know](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/none-of-us-clearly-know/) - None of us clearly know to whom or to what we are indebted in this wise, until some marked stop in the whirling wheel of life brings the right perception with it. It comes with sickness, it comes with sorrow, it comes with the loss of the dearly loved, it is one of the most
- [They whirled past the dark](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/they-whirled-past-the-dark/) - They whirled past the dark trees, as feathers would be swept before a hurricane. Houses, gates, churches, hay-stacks, objects of every kind they shot by, with a velocity and noise like roaring waters suddenly let loose. Still the noise of pursuit grew louder, and still my uncle could hear the young lady wildly screaming, "Faster!
- [There are many pleasant fictions](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-are-many-pleasant-fictions/) - There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the
- [Heart of London, there is](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/heart-of-london-there-is/) - Heart of London, there is a moral in thy every stroke! as I look on at thy indomitable working, which neither death, nor press of life, nor grief, nor gladness out of doors will influence one jot, I seem to hear a voice within thee which sinks into my heart, bidding me, as I elbow
- ["Then what can you want](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/then-what-can-you-want/) - "Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy. ~ The Pickwick Papers
- ["He has the power to](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/he-has-the-power-to/) - "He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count ’em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite
- [Over the whole, a young](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/over-the-whole-a-young/) - Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and an implacable determination to be avenged. ~ The Uncommercial Traveller - Refreshments for Travellers
- ["I went away, dear Agnes,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-went-away-dear-agnes/) - "I went away, dear Agnes, loving you. I stayed away, loving you. I returned home, loving you!" ~ David Copperfield
- ["Your voice and music are](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/your-voice-and-music-are/) - "Your voice and music are the same to me." ~ The Haunted Man
- [So, throughout life, our worst](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/so-throughout-life-our-worst/) - So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. ~ Great Expectations
- [There is a passion FOR](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-is-a-passion-for/) - There is a passion FOR hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast. ~ Oliver Twist
- [And thus ever by day](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/and-thus-ever-by-day/) - And thus ever by day and night, under the sun and under the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the weary plains, journeying by land and journeying by sea, coming and going so strangely, to meet and to act and react on one another, move all we restless travellers through the pilgrimage of
- ["But as to myself, my](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/but-as-to-myself-my/) - "But as to myself, my guiding-star always is, 'Get hold of portable property'." ~ Great Expectations
- ["It is because I think](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-is-because-i-think/) - "It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded." ~ Oliver Twist
- [THERE is a country, which](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-is-a-country-which/) - THERE is a country, which I will show you when I get into maps, where the children have everything their own way. It is a most delightful country to live in. The grown-up people are obliged to obey the children, and are never allowed to sit up to supper, except on their birthdays. The children
- [All the knives and forks](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/all-the-knives-and-forks/) - All the knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost in self-defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of
- [In this way they went](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/in-this-way-they-went/) - 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 them, and the church spire cast a long reflection on the graveyard grass; as if it were a dial (alas, the truest in the world!) marking, whatever light shone out of Heaven, the
- ["I see a beautiful city](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-see-a-beautiful-city/) - "I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself
- [If you could see my legs](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/if-you-could-see/) - "If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is." ~ Dombey and Son
- ["It's Christmas Day!" said Scrooge](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/its-christmas-day-said-scrooge/) - "It's Christmas Day!" said Scrooge to himself. "I haven't missed it. The Spirits have done it all in one night. They can do anything they like. Of course they can. Of course they can." ~ A Christmas Carol
- ["What such people miscall their](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/what-such-people-miscall-their/) - "What such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance." ~ David Copperfield
- [Melancholy streets, in a penitential](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/melancholy-streets-in-a-penitential/) - Melancholy streets, in a penitential garb of soot, steeped the souls of the people who were condemned to look at them out of windows, in dire despondency. ~ Little Dorrit
- [We spent as much money](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/we-spent-as-much-money/) - We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and
- ["I don't know what to](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-dont-know-what-to/) - "I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoon of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A
- [He lowered the window, and](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/he-lowered-the-window-and/) - He lowered the window, and looked out at the rising sun. There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon it where it had been left last night when the horses were unyoked; beyond, a quiet coppice-wood, in which many leaves of burning red and golden yellow still remained upon the trees. Though
- [Man is but mortal and](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/man-is-but-mortal-and/) - Man is but mortal: and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend. Mr. Pickwick gazed through his spectacles for an instant on the advancing mass, and then fairly turned his back and--we will not say fled; firstly, because it is an ignoble term, and, secondly, because Mr. Pickwick's figure was by no
- [He was a very young](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/he-was-a-very-young/) - He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright; but their light was of Heaven, not earth. ~ The Old Curiosity Shop
- ["Vell," said Mr. Weller, "Now](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/vell-said-mr-weller-now/) - "Vell," said Mr. Weller, "Now I s'pose he'll want to call some witnesses to speak to his character, or p'raps to prove a alleybi. I've been a turnin' the bis'ness over in my mind, and he may make his-self easy, Sammy. I've got some friends as'll do either for him, but my adwice 'ud be
- [Thus, cases of injustice, and](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/thus-cases-of-injustice-and/) - Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is
- [Dead Your Majesty](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/dead-your-majesty/) - Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, right reverends and wrong reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day. ~ Bleak House
- ["Don't go saying I never](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/dont-go-saying-i-never/) - "Don't go saying I never knew a mother," interposed the boy, "for I knew a little sister that was sister and mother both." ~ Our Mutual Friend
- [The star had shown him](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-star-had-shown-him/) - The star had shown him where to find the God of the poor; and through humility, and sorrow, and forgiveness, he had gone to his Redeemer's rest. ~ Hard Times
- [A bill, by the bye,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/a-bill-by-the-bye/) - A bill, by the bye, is the most extraordinary locomotive engine that the genius of man ever produced. It would keep on running during the longest lifetime, without ever once stopping of its own accord. ~ The Pickwick Papers
- [Its very pulse, if I](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/its-very-pulse-if-i/) - Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every moment with a gentle second stroke, as though it would check old Time, and have him stay his pace in pity, but measured it with one sledge-hammer beat, as if its business were
- ["What do you mean, Phib?"](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/what-do-you-mean-phib/) - "What do you mean, Phib?" asked Miss Squeers, looking in her own little glass, where, like most of us, she saw—not herself, but the reflection of some pleasant image in her own brain. ~ Nicholas Nickleby
- ["Why, I don't exactly know](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/why-i-dont-exactly-know/) - "Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more." ~ The Pickwick Papers
- [It was a harder day's](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-was-a-harder-days/) - It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance
- [My foe, the admiral, who](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/my-foe-the-admiral-who/) - My foe, the admiral, who though muzzled was malignant yet, contrived to suggest that I was dishonoured by having quitted the field. But the colonel himself had done as much, and gave his opinion, upon his word and honour as a pirate, that when all was lost the field might be quitted without disgrace. ~
- ["You will profit by the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/you-will-profit-by-the/) - "You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn." ~ Little Dorrit
- [Father Time is not always](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/father-time-is-not-always/) - Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is
- [He had no further intercourse](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/he-had-no-further-intercourse/) - He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed,
- [I don't remember who was](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-dont-remember-who-was/) - I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little
- [Ideas, like ghosts (according to](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/ideas-like-ghosts-according-to/) - Ideas, like ghosts (according to the common notion of ghosts), must be spoken to a little before they will explain themselves. ~ Dombey and Son
- [She better liked to see](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/she-better-liked-to-see/) - She better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than herself. ~ Barnaby Rudge
- [Many eyes, that have long](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/many-eyes-that-have-long/) - Many eyes, that have long since been closed in the grave, have looked round upon that scene lightly enough, when entering the gate of the old Marshalsea Prison for the first time: for despair seldom comes with the first severe shock of misfortune. ~ The Pickwick Papers
- [We have all some experience](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/we-have-all-some-experience/) - We have all some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances - of our knowing perfectly what will be said
- ["'There may be some, perhaps](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/there-may-be-some-perhaps/) - "'There may be some, perhaps - I don't know that there are - who abuse his kindness,' said Mr. Wickfield. 'Never be one of those, Trotwood, in anything. He is the least suspicious of mankind; and whether that's a merit, or whether it's a blemish, it deserves consideration in all dealings with the Doctor, great
- [I Return to This Young](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-return-to-this-young/) - "Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations." ~ Great Expectations
- [The two stand in the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-two-stand-in-the/) - The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, these two children of the Universal Mother, else so wide apart and differing, have come together on the dark highway, to repair home together, and to
- ["Once a gentleman, and always](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/once-a-gentleman-and-always/) - "Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman." ~ Little Dorrit
- ["One always begins to forgive](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/one-always-begins-to-forgive/) - "One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind." ~ Little Dorrit
- [Well observed R. Wilfer, cheerfully,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/well-observed-r-wilfer-cheerfully/) - "Well!" observed R. Wilfer, cheerfully, "money and goods are certainly the best of references." ~ Our Mutual Friend
- ["Bah!" said Scrooge.  "Humbug!"](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/bah-said-scrooge-humbug/) - "Bah!" said Scrooge. "Humbug!" ~ A Christmas Carol
- [Sitting down is my favourite](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/sitting-down-is-my-favourite/) - Sitting down is my favourite posture. ~ Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions
- [In the little world in](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/in-the-little-world-in/) - In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many
- [The few who yet survived](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-few-who-yet-survived/) - The few who yet survived them, kneeled by their tomb, and watered the green turf which covered it with their tears; then rose, and turned away, sadly and mournfully, but not with bitter cries, or despairing lamentations, for they knew that they should one day meet again; and once more they mixed with the busy
- ["I have heard it said](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/i-have-heard-it-said/) - "I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon." ~ Barnaby Rudge
- [But the moon came slowly](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/but-the-moon-came-slowly/) - But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window, as through the narrow crevice of one good deed in a murky life of guilt, the face of Heaven shone bright and merciful. He raised his head; gazed upward at
- ["Don't you think that any](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/dont-you-think-that-any/) - "Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?" ~ David Copperfield
- [Ven you read the speeches](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/ven-you-read-the-speeches/) - "Ven you read the speeches in the papers, and see as vun gen'lman says of another, 'the Honourable member, if he vill allow me to call him so' you vill understand, sir, that that means, 'if he vill allow me to keep up that 'ere pleasant and uniwersal fiction.'" ~ Master Humphrey's Clock
- [His wardrobe was extensive--very extensive--not](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/his-wardrobe-was-extensive-very-extensive-not/) - His wardrobe was extensive--very extensive--not strictly classical perhaps, not quite new, nor did it contain any one garment made precisely after the fashion of any age or time, but everything was more or less spangled; and what can be prettier than spangles! ~ The Pickwick Papers
- [Mrs. Bagnet is not at](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/mrs-bagnet-is-not-at/) - Mrs. Bagnet is not at all an ill-looking woman. Rather large-boned, a little coarse in the grain, and freckled by the sun and wind which have tanned her hair upon the forehead, but healthy, wholesome, and bright-eyed. A strong, busy, active, honest-faced woman of from forty-five to fifty. Clean, hardy, and so economically dressed (though
- ["She writhes under her life.](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/she-writhes-under-her-life/) - "She writhes under her life. A woman more angry, passionate, reckless, and revengeful never lived." ~ Little Dorrit
- [It is no worse, because](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-is-no-worse-because/) - It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. It is done. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was. ~ David Copperfield
- ["Please, sir, he's weeding the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/please-sir-hes-weeding-the/) - "Please, sir, he's weeding the garden," replied a small voice. To be sure," said Squeers, by no means disconcerted. "So he is. B-o-t, bot, t-i-n, tin, bottin, n-e-y, ney, bottinney, noun substantive, a knowledge of plants. When he has learned that bottinney means a knowledge of plants, he goes and knows 'em. That's our system,Nickleby;
- ["Because the memory of those](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/because-the-memory-of-those/) - "Because the memory of those who lie below, passes away so soon. At first they tend them, morning, noon, and night; they soon begin to come less frequently; from once a day, to once a week; from once a week to once a month; then, at long and uncertain intervals; then, not at all. Such
- [But, tears were not the](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/but-tears-were-not-the/) - But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof. ~ Oliver Twist
- [We know Mr. Weller](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/we-know-mr-weller/) - "We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later." ~ The Pickwick Papers
- [It Was One of Those](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-was-one-of-those/) - It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning. ~ Martin Chuzzlewit
- [The men who learn endurance,](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-men-who-learn-endurance/) - The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. ~ Barnaby Rudge
- [The last trumpet ever to](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/the-last-trumpet-ever-to/) - The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck. ~ Hard times
- [He wore a sprinkling of](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/he-wore-a-sprinkling-of/) - He wore a sprinkling of powder upon his head, as if to make himself look benevolent; but if that were his purpose, he would perhaps have done better to powder his countenance also, for there was something in its very wrinkles, and in his cold restless eye, which seemed to tell of cunning that would

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- [Hard Times](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quote-title/hard-times/) - Hard Times was Dickens’s tenth novel. It first appeared in Dickens’s weekly periodical, Household Words in 1854. We hope you enjoy this collection of 22 quotes from Hard Times.
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- [Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quote-title/mrs-lirripers-legacy/) - We hope you enjoy this collection of quotes from Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy by Charles Dickens.
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- [A Message from the Sea](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quote-title/a-message-from-the-sea/) - We hope you enjoy this collection of quotes from A Message from the Sea by Charles Dickens.
- [Public Life of Mr. Trumble, Once Mayor of Mudfog](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quote-title/public-life-of-mr-trumble-once-mayor-of-mudfog/) - We hope you enjoy this collection of quotes from Public Life of Mr. Trumble, Once Mayor of Mudfog by Charles Dickens.
- [The Mystery of Edwin Drood](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quote-title/the-mystery-of-edwin-drood/) - Dickens was working on The Mystery of Edwin Drood when he passed away. We hope you enjoy this collection of 22 quotes from The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
- [A Flight](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quote-title/a-flight/) - We hope you enjoy this collection of quotes from A Flight by Charles Dickens.
- [Sunday Under Three Heads](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quote-title/sunday-under-three-heads/) - We hope you enjoy this collection of quotes from Sunday Under Three Heads by Charles Dickens.
- [The Old Curiosity Shop](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quote-title/the-old-curiosity-shop/) - The Old Curiosity Shop was the fourth novel by Charles Dickens. The novel was published in installments in the periodical Master Humphrey’s Clock. We hope you enjoy this collection of 33 quotes from The Old Curiosity Shop.
- [Little Dorrit](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quote-title/little-dorrit/) - The Marshalsea debtors’ prison plays a large part in Little Dorrit. Few people knew that Dickens’s father had been sent to Marshalsea for three months. We hope you enjoy this collection of 51 quotes from Little Dorrit.
- [The Haunted Man](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quote-title/the-haunted-man/) - We hope you enjoy this collection of quotes from The Haunted Man by Charles Dickens.
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- [Tom Tiddler's Ground](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quote-title/tom-tiddlers-ground/) - We hope you enjoy this collection of quotes from Tom Tiddler’s Ground by Charles Dickens.
- [Wreck of the Golden Mary](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quote-title/wreck-of-the-golden-mary/) - We hope you enjoy this collection of quotes from Wreck of the Golden Mary by Charles Dickens.
- [The Long Voyage](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quote-title/the-long-voyage/) - We hope you enjoy this collection of quotes from The Long Voyage by Charles Dickens.
- [The Haunted House](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quote-title/the-haunted-house/) - We hope you enjoy this collection of quotes from The Haunted House by Charles Dickens.
- [The Uncommercial Traveller - Nurse's Stories](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quote-title/the-uncommercial-traveller-nurses-stories/) - We hope you enjoy this collection of quotes from The Uncommercial Traveller – Nurse’s Stories by Charles Dickens.
- [The Chimes: A Goblin Story](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quote-title/the-chimes-a-goblin-story/) - We hope you enjoy this collection of quotes from The Chimes: A Goblin Story by Charles Dickens.
- [A Christmas Carol](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quote-title/a-christmas-carol/) - A Christmas Carol Quotes A Christmas Carol was written by Charles Dickens and published in 1843. We hope you enjoy this collection A Christmas Carol quotes.
- [The Uncommercial Traveller - Refreshments for Travellers](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quote-title/the-uncommercial-traveller-refreshments-for-travellers/) - We hope you enjoy this collection of quotes from The Uncommercial Traveller – Refreshments for Travellers by Charles Dickens.
- [Holiday Romance](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quote-title/holiday-romance/) - We hope you enjoy this collection of quotes from Holiday Romance by Charles Dickens.
- [The Uncommercial Traveller - Night Walks](https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quote-title/the-uncommercial-traveller-night-walks/) - We hope you enjoy this collection of quotes from The Uncommercial Traveller – Night Walks by Charles Dickens.
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