Quotes from Charles Dickens

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.

Let me see you ride a donkey over my green again, and as sure as you have a head upon your shoulders, I'll knock your bonnet off, and tread upon it!

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair . . . in short, the period was so far like the present period . . . .

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

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

He'd make a lovely corpse.

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

He would make a lovely corpse.

There were times when he could not read the face he had studied so long, and when this lonely girl was a greater mystery to him than any women of the world...

Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

In love of home, the love of country has its rise.

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Love is a crazy thing. It sucks and is totally overrated.