1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.

No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.

If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort of spring rash.

There were times when he could not read the face he had studied so long, and when this lonely girl was a greater mystery to him than any women of the world...

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle glass--an iron wall to them; half-naked shivering figures stopped to gaze at Chinese shawls and golden stuffs of India.