Charles Dickens Quotes

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
Charles Dickens

Life, Truth, Strong

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Charles Dickens

Before, Idea, Ghost

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
Charles Dickens

Home, Justice, Door

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

Good, Words, Lips

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

Best, Times, Worst

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.
Charles Dickens

Home, Strong, Word

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
Charles Dickens

Good, May, Temper

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.
Charles Dickens

Nature, Time, Morning

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
Charles Dickens

Bring, Clean, Lightning

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

Money, Rarely, Civility

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

Best, Story, Boy

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Charles Dickens

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
Charles Dickens

Regrets, Natural, Property

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
Charles Dickens

Children, Nothing, Injustice

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
Charles Dickens

Men, Learn, Whole

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
Charles Dickens

Sometimes, Virtues, Excess

We forge the chains we wear in life.
Charles Dickens

Life, Wear, Chains

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

Best, Far, Books

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
Charles Dickens

Men, Great, Seldom

He would make a lovely corpse.
Charles Dickens

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.
Charles Dickens

Done, Far, Rest

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
Charles Dickens

Sometimes, Questions, Dignity

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
Charles Dickens

Nature, Human, Conquered

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
Charles Dickens

Two, Eye, Prejudice

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

Love, Makes, Baby

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Biography

Nationality: English

Born: February 7, 1812

Died: June 9, 1870

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