Charles Dickens Quotes About Human Nature

• Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Judging, World

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.1736, Delphi Classics

• Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

  Charles Dickens

  Food, Human Nature, Abstinence

  Nicholas Nickleby ch. 5 (1839)

• It is one of those problems of human nature, which may be noted down, but not solved; - although Ralph felt no remorse at that moment for his conduct towards the innocent, true-hearted girl; although his libertine clients had done precisely what he had expected, precisely what he most wished, and precisely what would tend most to his advantage, still he hated them for doing it, from the very bottom of his soul.

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Character, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (1854). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ... With a Frontispiece from a Painting by T. Webster”, p.223

• There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Passion

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit: With a frontispiece, from a drawing by Frank Stone”, p.82

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