1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself.

El Cielo esta muy lejos, y los que en el moran son demasiado dichosos para bajar a velar junto a la cama de un pobre niño

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

Any capitalist . . . who had made sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, always professed to wonder why the sixty thousand nearest Hands didn't each make sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, and more or less reproached them every one for not accomplishing the little feat. What I did you can do. Why don't you go and do it?

The mother who lay in the grave, was the mother of my infancy; the little creature in her arms, was myself, as I had once been, hushed for ever on her bosom.

On this matter I'm inclined to agree with the French, who gaze upon any personal dietary prohibition as bad manners.

Jarndyce and Jarndyce has passed into a joke. That is the only good that has ever come of it.