1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

For our path in life...is stony and rugged now, and it rests with us to smooth it. We must fight our way onward. We must be brave. There are obstacles to be met, and we must meet, and crush them!

...lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to the same.

My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.

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

Trifles make the sum of life.

How slight a thing will disturb the equanimity of our frail minds!

He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path-for him.~ Stephen speaking of Rachael

Ideas, like ghosts (according to the common notion of ghosts) must be spoken to a little before they will explain themselves;

Darkness was cheap, and Scrooge liked it.