1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

A friendly swarry, consisting of a boiled leg of mutton with the usual trimmings.

There's a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a Angel. That young man hears the words I speak. That young man has a secret way pecooliar to himself, of getting at a boy, and at his heart, and at his liver.

The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.

You have no idea what it is to have anybody wonderful fond of you, unless you have been got down and rolled upon by the lonely feelings that I have mentioned as having once got the better of me.

... As to sleep, you know, I never sleep now. I might be a Watchman, except that I don't get any pay, and he's got nothing on his mind.

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.