Charles Dickens Quotes About Dignity

• 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

• 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.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Agony, Numbers

  CHARLES DICKENS (1867). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.289

• Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

  Charles Dickens

  People, Coats, Holiness

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.141

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