Quotes from Charles Dickens

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

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

The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

Come in, -- come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before!

A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!

A man must take the fat with the lean.

A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views.

It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.

"I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.

There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.

The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.

By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!

Philosophers are only men in armor after all.

Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.

a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.

I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . .

There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen.