1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

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

I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.

My Wednesday nights came regularly round, our quartet parties came regularly off, my violoncello was in good tune, and there was nothing wrong in my world— or if anything not much— or little or much, it was no affair of mine.

Trifles make the sum of life.

May the British Lion have his talons eradicated by the noble bill of the American Eagle, and be taught to play upon the Irish Harp and the Scotch Fiddle that music which is breathed by every empty shell that lies upon the shore of green Columbia.

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

All good ends can be worked out by good means. Those that cannot, are bad; and may be counted so at once, and left alone.

Blunt tools are sometimes found of use where sharper instruments would fail.