Quotes from Charles Dickens

There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.

She writhes under her life. A woman more angry, passionate, reckless, and revengeful never lived.

My life is one demd horrid grind.

I wear the chains I forged in life.

In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley.

When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.

The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me.

They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles.

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

Reflect upon your present blessings

Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.

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

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.