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Quotes by

Charles Dickens

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

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

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine. – Charles Dickens

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

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions. – Charles Dickens

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

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself. – Charles Dickens

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

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. – Charles Dickens

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

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. – Charles Dickens

The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas…. – Charles Dickens

If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish. – Charles Dickens

There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and yourself half conscious of everything that is passing around you, than you would in five nights with your eyes fast closed and your senses wrapt in perfect unconsciousness. – Charles Dickens

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. – Charles Dickens

There is a wisdom of the head, and… a wisdom of the heart. – Charles Dickens

I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold. – Charles Dickens

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood. – Charles Dickens

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. – Charles Dickens

What greater gift than the love of a cat? – Charles Dickens