1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

She's the sort of woman now,' said Mould, . . . 'one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too!

In company with several other old ladies of both sexes.

There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning

"Lord bless you!" said Mr. Omer, resuming his pipe, "a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must make up his mind to, in this life. "

O you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?

'There may be some, perhaps - I don't know that there are - who abuse his kindness,' said Mr. Wickfield. 'Never be one of those, Trotwood, in anything. He is the least suspicious of mankind; and whether that's a merit, or whether it's a blemish, it deserves consideration in all dealings with the Doctor, great or small.

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me.