Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs. – Charles Dickens
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and youve conquered human nature. – Charles Dickens
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Dont 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. – Charles Dickens
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when hes well dressed. There aint much credit in that. – Charles Dickens
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pitys small change in general society. – Charles Dickens
A boys story is the best that is ever told. – Charles Dickens
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. – Charles Dickens
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. – Charles Dickens
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. – Charles Dickens
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart. – Charles Dickens
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. – Charles Dickens
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. – Charles Dickens
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. – Charles Dickens
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. – Charles Dickens
A loving heart is the truest wisdom. – Charles Dickens
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. – Charles Dickens
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! – Charles Dickens
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. – Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. – Charles Dickens
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest. – Charles Dickens
