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
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
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. – Charles Dickens
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. – Charles Dickens
Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex. – George Bernard Shaw