Charles Dickens Quotes - Page 6

• Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Christmas, Xmas

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

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• Nobody near me here, but rats, and they are fine stealthy secret fellows.

  Charles Dickens

  Secret, Rats, Spooky

  Charles Dickens (1863). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.391

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• A good thing can't be cruel.

  Charles Dickens

  Good Things, Cruelty

  Charles Dickens (1858). “Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.59

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• The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season's greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year be filled with joy.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, New Year, Holiday

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• 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

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• 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)

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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• Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

  Charles Dickens

  Hard Times, Roots, Facts

  Charles Dickens (1858). “Hard Times”, p.205

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• An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

  Charles Dickens

  Halloween, Creativity, Ideas

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• Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.

  Charles Dickens

  Romantic, Marriage, Wedding

  Charles Dickens (1854). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ... With a Frontispiece from a Painting by T. Webster”, p.490

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• 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)

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• There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

  Charles Dickens

  Pride, Sickness, Breaking Down

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• I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Night, Reality

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.8404, Delphi Classics

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• It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Kings, Humorous

  Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.252

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• 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

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• Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

  Charles Dickens

  Believe, Soul, Triumph

  Charles Dickens (2015). “British Classics: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)”, p.150, The Planet

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• I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did!

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Giving Up, Real

  Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.198, The Planet

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• I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

  Charles Dickens

  Romantic Love, Expectations, Promise

  1860-1 Great Expectations, ch.29.

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• Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

  Charles Dickens

  Words Of Wisdom, Surprise, Me Alone

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.71

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• But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.

  Charles Dickens

  Law, Lawyer, Mere

  "Bleak House".

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• Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Powerful, Disappointment

  Charles Dickens (1842). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.392

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• The dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Dream, Childhood

  Charles Dickens (2004). “The Shorter Novels of Charles Dickens”, p.533, Wordsworth Editions

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