1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty’s holiest touch of nature.

Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead.

It’s over, and can’t be helped, and that’s one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man’s head off.

Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses – a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.

The change was made in me; the thing was done. Well or ill done, excusably or inexcusably, it was done.

I never had one hour’s happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

Depth answers only to depth .

Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook’s next door to each other, with a laundress’s next door to that. That was the pudding.

The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people’s one.