Charles Dickens Quotes About Pleasure

• 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

  Funny, Christmas, Xmas

  "The Pickwick Papers". Book by Charles Dickens, 1836.

• The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season's greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year be filled with joy.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, New Year, Holiday

• 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 as great as if it cost a fortune.

  Charles Dickens

  Lying, Light, Giving

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.

• We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

  Charles Dickens

  Discovery, Heaven, Mystery

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.198

• Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

  Charles Dickens

  Change, Caring, Men

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit ... With a Frontispiece, from a Drawing by F. Stone”, p.180

• "Oh!" said my aunt, "I was not aware at first to whom I had the pleasure of objecting."

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Aunt

  Charles Dickens (1850). “Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observations of David Copperfield the Younger”, p.155

• 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 seeming to take pleasure or pride in nothing.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Pride, Men

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Sunday Under Three Heads: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

• He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of houses, and up to the windows; and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed that any walk — that anything — could give him so much happiness.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Children, Home

  "A Christmas carol in prose, being a ghost story of Christmas: With original art and narration by Jon Langford".

• Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.

  Charles Dickens

  Mother, Sweet, Pain

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.205

• It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

  Charles Dickens

  Contentment, Quality, May

  Charles Dickens (2006). “David Copperfield Volume III [Easyread Edition]”, p.78, ReadHowYouWant.com

• There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

  Charles Dickens

  Charity, Excitement, Pleasure

  Charles Dickens (1842). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.161

• The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer's morning, is most striking even to the few whose unfortunate pursuits of pleasure, or scarcely less unfortunate pursuits of business, cause them to be well acquainted with the scene. There is an air of cold, solitary desolation about the noiseless streets which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a busy, eager crowd, and over the quiet, closely-shut buildings, which throughout the day are swarming with life and bustle, that is very impressive.

  Charles Dickens

  Summer, Morning, Air

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Sketches by Boz: Pseud. Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People”, p.55

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