Quotes by Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

English writer

Lived from: 1812 - 1870

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 7 february 1812 Died: 9 june 1870

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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.
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  • Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
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  • Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
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  • Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.
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  • 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.
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  • Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
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  • Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
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  • Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
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  • He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
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  • He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.
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  • He would make a lovely corpse.
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  • Here's the rule for bargains: ''Do other men, for they would do you.'' That's the true business precept.
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  • Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
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  • I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
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  • I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.
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  • I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
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  • 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.
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  • I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
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  • 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...
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  • I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.
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