1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn’t paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows – they leap in like sugary ninjas.

Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy. -Miss Havisham.

Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase.

I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man’s opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music.

You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me.

Only one soul was to be seen, and that was Madame Defarge – who leaned against the door-post, knitting, and saw nothing.

I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy.

I hope you care to be recalled to life?

But the mere truth won’t do. You must have a lawyer.