1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.

A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Lead on! said Scrooge. ""Lead on! The night is waning fast, and it is precious time to me, I know. Lead on, Spirit!

Reflect upon your present blessings

I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction of me. You don't know what my state of mind towards you is. You don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it.

Her heart-is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or, better than that, die for him. She knows he has failings, but she thinks they have grown up through his being like one cast away, for the want of something to trust in, and care for, and think well of.

The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window.

Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir.