Top 35 Charles Dickens Quotes

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

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.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

He would make a lovely corpse.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

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!

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

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.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

A boy’s story is the best that is ever told.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

A person who can’t pay gets another person who can’t pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don’t make either of them able to do a walking-match.

‘Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.