1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

I could never have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

A wedding is a licensed subject to joke upon, but there really is no great joke in the matter after all; — we speak merely of the ceremony and beg it to be distinctly understood that we indulge in no hidden sarcasm upon a married life.

Bless us all/With playful years/With noisy games and joyful tears.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week if there is anything to be got by it.

The dew seemed to sparkle more brightly on the green leaves the air to rustle among them with sweeter music and the sky itself to look more blue and bright. Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercise, even over the appearance of external objects.