Quotes from Charles Dickens

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

My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property.

Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering

And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment.

every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one.

Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.

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.

Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.

'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.'

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Change begets change.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings.

Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.

Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.

Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.

... The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.

... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us.