1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

I wear the chains I forged in life.

Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die?

What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!

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.

The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.

Your voice and music are the same to me.

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

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day, or Warren's blackin' or Rowland's oil, or some o' them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy.

The school is not quite deserted, said the Ghost. ""A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.