Charles Dickens Quotes About Literature

• A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

  Charles Dickens

  Time, Son, Boys

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Christmas Stories”, p.441, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Charles Dickens

  Papa, Literature, Potatoes

  Little Dorrit bk. 2, ch. 5 (1857)

• It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

  Charles Dickens

  Summer, Nature, Spring

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Great Expectations: Classic English Literature”, p.394, 谷月社

• I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.

  Charles Dickens

  Literature, Made, Should

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.14179, Delphi Classics

• There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Strong, Truth

  Charles Dickens (2007). “David Copperfield”, Bloomsbury Pub Limited

• The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

  Charles Dickens

  Brother, Men, Endurance

  Charles Dickens (1858). “Hard Times”, p.169

• There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

  Charles Dickens

  Art, Pain, Two

  Nicholas Nickleby ch. 10 (1839)

• The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

  Charles Dickens

  Literature, Civility

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.9847, Delphi Classics

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

  Charles Dickens

  Fashion, Men, Literature

  Charles Dickens (2015). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Volume 1 (of 2) (Illustrations)”, p.8, E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

• Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

  Charles Dickens

  Vices, Excess, Literature

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens”, p.835, Cosimo, Inc.

• 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.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Heart, Literature

  "David Copperfield". Book by Charles Dickens, 1850.

• Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, People, Literature

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.197

• Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

  Charles Dickens

  Lying, Deceit, Literature

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Great Expectations”, p.14, Booklassic

• There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Literature, Emotion

  'Barnaby Rudge' (1841) ch. 22 (Mr Tappertit)

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

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Men

  'Martin Chuzzlewit' (1844) ch. 5 (Mark Tapley)

• Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Money, Guarantees That

  Little Dorrit bk. 1, ch. 23 (1857)

• 'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

  Charles Dickens

  Baby, Literature, World

  Charles Dickens (1868). “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.429

• 'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.

  Charles Dickens

  Judging, Fancy, Taste

  'Pickwick Papers' (1837) ch. 34

• May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

  Charles Dickens

  People, Literature, May

  Charles Dickens (1839). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.160

• Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

  Charles Dickens

  Passion, Agriculture, Literature

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Dombey and Son”, p.292, Xist Publishing

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

  Charles Dickens

  Business, Clever, Men

• It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Time, Cities

  A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 1 (1859)

• We are so very 'umble.

  Charles Dickens

  Literature

  'David Copperfield' (1850) ch. 17 (Uriah Heep)

• A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.

  Charles Dickens

  Guarantees That, Two, Literature

  Little Dorrit bk. 1, ch. 23 (1857)

• He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

  Charles Dickens

  Running, Eye, Two

  "Nicholas Nickleby".

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