1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything.

There was no pause, no pity, no peace, no interval of relenting rest, no measurement of time. Though days and nights circled as regularly as when time was young, and the evening and morning were the first day, other count of time there was none.

My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention.

It is required of every man,” the Ghost returned, “that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world – oh, woe is me! – and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to happiness!

You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!

You don’t carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

I cannot rest, I cannot stay, I cannot linger anywhere.

No one is useless in this world,′ retorted the Secretary, ’who lightens the burden of it for any one else.

From the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone one way Charles Darnay’s way the way of the love of a woman.