Famous Charles Dickens Quotes
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
Charles Dickens
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
Charles Dickens
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
Charles Dickens
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.
Charles Dickens
Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families.
Charles Dickens
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
Charles Dickens
There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.
Charles Dickens
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Charles Dickens
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.
Charles Dickens
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
Charles Dickens
We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.
Charles Dickens
My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.
Charles Dickens
A boy’s story is the best that is ever told.
Charles Dickens
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
Charles Dickens
God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all.
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I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Charles Dickens
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
Charles Dickens
What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!
Charles Dickens
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.
Charles Dickens
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Charles Dickens
Trifles make the sum of life.
Charles Dickens
We need never be ashamed of our tears.
Charles Dickens
I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.
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