1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

We are so very 'umble.

Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.

Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.

The law is an ass, an idiot.

Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry.

What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never molts a feather?

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

On summer evenings, when every flower, and tree, and bird, might have better addressed my soft young heart, I have in my day been caught in the palm of a female hand by the crown, have been violently scrubbed from the neck to the roots of the hair as a purification for the Temple, and have then been carried off highly charged with saponaceous electricity, to be steamed like a potato in the unventilated breath of the powerful Boanerges Boiler and his congregation, until what small mind I had, was quite steamed out of me

One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.