1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

For again Scrooge saw himself. He was older now, a man in the prime of life. His face had not the harsh and rigid lines of later years, but it had begun to wear the signs of care and avarice. There was an eager, greedy, restless motion in the eye, which showed the passion that had taken root, and where the shadow of the growing tree would fall.

A man ain’t got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views.

At one of these a lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire; and Scrooge sat down upon a form, and wept to see his poor forgotten self as he used to be.

She indulged in melancholy, that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries...

There are not many places that I find it more agreeable to revisit, when I am in an idle mood, than some places to which I have never been.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together, – running, and catching, and batting, and bowling, and revelling in toil which would exhaust a galley-slave.

The beach was a desert of heaps of sea and stones tumbling wildly about, and the sea did what it liked, and what it liked was destruction.

There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with.