Quotes by Charles Dickens

About Charles Dickens:

Charles John Huffam Dickens is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
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And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

Charles Dickens

Wish me everything that you can wish for the woman you dearly love, and I have as good as got it, John. I have better than got it, John.

Charles Dickens

I really am a little afraid, my dear,” hinted the cherub meekly, “that you are not enjoying yourself?” “On the contrary,” returned Mrs. Wilfer, “quite so. Why should I not?” “I thought, my dear, that perhaps your face might—“ “M...

Charles Dickens

Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.

Charles Dickens

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected." ( , 1853)

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Charles Dickens

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

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The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Charles Dickens

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

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That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

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Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

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Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Charles Dickens

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Charles Dickens

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Charles Dickens

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

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Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Charles Dickens

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

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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

Author Bio

  • NameCharles Dickens
  • DescriptionEnglish writer and social critic
  • AliasesCharles John Huffam Dickens
  • BornFebruary 7, 1812
  • DiedJune 9, 1870
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Journalist; Social Critic
  • WorksThe Pickwick Papers; Oliver Twist; A Christmas Carol; David Copperfield; Bleak House; Hard Times; Little Dorrit; A Tale Of Two Cities; Great Expectations