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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  • 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.
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  • I wants to make your flesh creep.
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  • I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.
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  • If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
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  • 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
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  • Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
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  • It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
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  • 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.
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  • It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
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  • It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.
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  • It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
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  • 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.
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  • Knaves generally overreach themselves by imputing their own designs to others.
    Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
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  • Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
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  • Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
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  • Lord, keep my memory green.
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  • Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.
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  • Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
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  • Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
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  • Minerva House was ''a finishing establishment for young ladies,'' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.
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