1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

As she frequently remarked when she made any such mistake, it would be all the same a hundred years hence.

The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.

... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.

No one is useless in this world, retorted the Secretary, ""who lightens the burden of it for any one else.

She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be.

She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink, no looking down, or looking back. I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.

At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

A man must take the fat with the lean.