Quotes 41 till 60 of 118.
-
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
-
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
-
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
-
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...
-
I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.
-
I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.
-
I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.
-
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
-
If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.
-
In this world a great deal of the bitterness amongst us arises from an imperfect understanding of one another.
Speech Birmingham’s Town Hall 30 december 1853 -
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
-
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
-
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
-
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
-
It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.
-
It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
-
Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.
-
Knaves generally overreach themselves by imputing their own designs to others.
Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
All dickens famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 3)
