1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life... I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

The one serviceable, safe, certain, remunerative, attainable quality in every study, and every pursuit is the quality of attention.

Credit is a system whereby a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

You will be surprised that he proposed seven times, once in a hackney-coach once in a boat once in a pew once on a donkey at Tunbridge Wells and the rest on his knees.