Quotes from Charles Dickens

When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.

Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.

Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will

You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.

Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

Love, however, is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory, and will thrive, for a considerable time, on very slight and sparing food.

"It's an old habit of mine, Wal'r," said the Captain, "any time these fifty year. When you see Ned Cuttle bite his nails, Wal'r, then you may know that Ned Cuttle's aground."

Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram.

It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.

Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

What greater gift than the love of a cat.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

And it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.