1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

Don’t you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?

Some women’s faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.

I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly – and that is the sharpest crying of all.

In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting. Daring burglaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night; families were publicly cautioned not to go out.

There’s a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a Angel. That young man hears the words I speak. That young man has a secret way pecooliar to himself, of getting at a boy, and at his heart, and at his liver.

I was so humiliated, hurt, spurned, offended, angry, sorry – I cannot hit upon the right name for the smart – God knows what its name was – that tears started to my eyes.

Money can’t buy a happy life, or a peaceful death.