1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

What greater gift than the love of a cat.

I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.

‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.