1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain’t so easy for ’em to see out of a needle’s eye.

Whatsume’er the failings on his part, Remember reader he were that good in his hart.

How beautiful you are! You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. I don’t ask you for your love; give me yourself and your hatred; give me yourself and that pretty rage; give me yourself and that enchanting scorn; it will be enough for me.

I wear the chain I forged in life,” replied the ghost. “I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

You speak so feelingly and so manfully, Charles Darnay.

I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to beat, I would cease to be. But you know what I mean. I have no softness there, no – sympathy – sentiment – nonsense.

We are so very ’umble.

I ate ’umble pie with an appetite.

I’m awful dull, but I hope I’ve beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!