1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

"You see," said Mr. Toots, "what I wanted in a wife was - in short, was sense. Money, Feeder, I had. Sense I - I had not, particularly."

At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . .

Then I'm sorry to say, I've eat your pie.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

There's light enough for what I've got to do.

"Well," said my aunt, "this is his boy - his son. He would be as like his father as it's possible to be, if he was not so like his mother, too."

Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language.

I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.

Hours are golden links--God's tokens reaching heaven.