1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

have you taken leave of your senses

The four hearse-horses, especially, reared and pranced, and showed their highest action, as if they knew a man was dead, and triumphed in it. "The break us, drive us, ride us; ill-treat, abuse, and maim us for their pleasure—But they die; Hurrah, they die!

Cuan fecundo en decepciones es el mundo!

My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.

. . . for not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.

Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief itself arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain

Dios es muy justo; y esas mismas perdidas irreparables nos demuestran por modo evidente que hay un mundo mejor y mas hermoso que este, y que el camino que a el nos lleva es breve

There are strings in the human heart which must never be sounded by another, and drinks that I make myself are those strings in mine.

We have had for breakfast, toasts, cakes, a yorkshire pie, a piece of beef about the size and much the shape of my portmanteau, tea, coffee, ham and eggs...