1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

In the Destroyer’s steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.

The habit of paying compliments kept a man’s tongue oiled without any expense.

It was understood that nothing of a tender nature could possibly be confided to old Barley, by reason of his being totally unequal to the consideration of any subject more psychological than gout, rum, and purser’s stores.

You are envious, Biddy, and grudging. You are dissatisfied on account of my rise in fortune, and you can’t help showing it.

Man,” said the Ghost, “if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man’s child. Oh God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!

My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening.

Toor rul lol loo, gammon and spinnage, the frog he wouldn’t, and high cockolorum,’ said the Dodger: with a slight sneer on his intellectual countenance.

In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting.

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is – as the light called human life is – at its coming and its going.