1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

Are not the sane and the insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming?

I assumed my first undivided responsibility.

Welcome, old aspirations, glittering creatures of an ardent underneath the holly! We know you, and have not outlived you yet. Welcome, old projects, and old loves, however fleeting, to your nooks among the steadier lights that burn around us

This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy.

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

You deepen the injury. It is sufficient already.

Never say never

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,

If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!