1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Never, never, before Heaven, have I thought of you but as the single, bright, pure, blessed recollection of my boyhood and my youth. Never have I from the first, and never shall I to the last, regard your part in my life, but as something sacred, never to be lightly thought of, never to be esteemed enough, never, until death, to be forgotten.

Oh, what a misfortune is mine, cried Bradley, breaking off to wipe the starting perspiration from his face as he shook from head to foot, ""that I cannot so control myself as to appear a stronger creature than this, when a man who has not felt in all his life what I have felt in a day can so command himself!"" He said it in a very agony, and even followed it with an errant motion of his hands as if he could have torn himself.

A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Grief never mended no broken bones.

a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

The business of the law is to increase the business of the law

There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands.