Take example by your father, my boy, and be very careful of vidders all your life, specially if theyve kept a public house, Sammy. – Charles Dickens
A man in public life expects to be sneered at — it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself. – Charles Dickens
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. – Charles Dickens
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. – Charles Dickens
The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better. – Charles Dickens
I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together. – Charles Dickens
He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two. – Charles Dickens
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. – Charles Dickens
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
A person who cant pay gets another person who cant 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 dont make either of them able to do a walking-match. – Charles Dickens
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. – Charles Dickens
They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat. – Charles Dickens
. . . although a skilful flatterer is a most delightful companion, if you can keep him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. – Charles Dickens
There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast. – Charles Dickens
With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. – Charles Dickens
We know, Mr. Weller — we, who are men of the world — that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later. – Charles Dickens
Heres the rule for bargains: Do other men, for they would do you. Thats the true business precept. – Charles Dickens
There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated. – Charles Dickens
How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen! – Charles Dickens
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those dark, clustered houses encloses it – Charles Dickens
