Charles Dickens Quotes About Parents

• Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Father, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty'”, p.25, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

• For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Parent, World

  Charles Dickens (1872). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.145

• One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust . . . you no sooner set up an idol firmly, than you are sure to pull it down and dash it into fragments: and this because directly you reward a benefactor, or a public servant, you distrust him, merely because he is rewarded . . . . Any man who attains a high place among you, from the President downwards, may date his downfall from that moment.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Idols, America

• The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.

  Charles Dickens

  Parent, Words Of Wisdom, Religion

  Charles Dickens (1852). “Bleak House”, p.101

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