Charles Dickens Quotes About Books

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

  Charles Dickens

  Book, Fall, Beer

  Barnaby Rudge Ch. 7

• No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

  Charles Dickens

  Book, Beer, Words Of Wisdom

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

• 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

  Inspirational, Death, Book

  A Tale of Two Cities bk. 3, ch. 15 (1859)

• There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

  Charles Dickens

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist”, p.97, Cosimo, Inc.

• The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

  Charles Dickens

  Bible, Book, Biblical

• 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.

  Charles Dickens

  Rain, Book, Dark

  Charles Dickens (2015). “The Long Voyage”, p.3, Booklassic

• 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 flight of days and weeks and years, by some new shadow on that solemn ground.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Book, Reflection

  Charles Dickens (1872). “Works of Charles Dickens”, p.123

• You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me.

  Charles Dickens

  Book, Blame, Praise

  Charles Dickens (1861). “Great Expectations”, p.88

• We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

  Charles Dickens

  Book, Reading, Tire

  Charles Dickens (1914). “A Charles Dickens Birthday Book”

• Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

  Charles Dickens

  Book, Language, Marley

• 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.

  Charles Dickens

  Book, Reading, Character

  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.141

• ... 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.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Book, Sorrow

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Ghost Stories”, p.86, Pan Macmillan

• 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 of giving birth to a new partner in such a house, could not fail to awaken a glorious and stirring ambition in the breast of the least ambitious of her sex.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Girl, Sex

  1846-8 Dombey and Son, ch.1.

• 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 and blue-mould upon him. Then only was he permitted to be seen, spectacularly poring over large books, and casting his breeches and gaiters into the general weight of the establishment.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Book, Dark

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.6820, Delphi Classics

• It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too." Are you, Joe?" Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!" he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!

  Charles Dickens

  Book, Reading, Fire

  Charles Dickens (2011). “Great Expectations (Illustrated)”, p.50, Top Five Books LLC

• Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.

  Charles Dickens

  Book, Night, Men

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Old Curiosity Shop--and Reprinted Pieces”, p.11

• We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of successive ages, the just and wholesome law which declares that the sturdy felon shall be fed and clothed, and that the penniless debtor shall be left to die of starvation and nakedness. This is no fiction.

  Charles Dickens

  Book, Law, Age

  "The Pickwick Papers". Book by Charles Dickens, Chapter 42, 1836.

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