1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure?" "I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.

Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke.

Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.

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

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

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

Now, Bella suspected by this time that Mr. Rokesmith admired her. Whether the knowledge (for it was rather that than suspicion) caused her to incline to him a little more, or a little less, than she had done at first; whether it rendered her eager to find out more about him, because she sought to establish reason for her distrust, or because she sought to free him from it; was as yet dark to her own heart. But at most times he occupied a great amount of her attention.

Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.

I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.