There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
Charles Dickens

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
Charles Dickens

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

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

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
Charles Dickens

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

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.
Charles Dickens

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
Charles Dickens

We are so very 'umble.
Charles Dickens

We forge the chains we wear in life.
Charles Dickens

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
Charles Dickens

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

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