1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

the sight of me is good for sore eyes

Son muchos los desheredados, los hambrientos, los criminales, que no tienen mas lecho que la calle, en la que cierran los ojos que no han de volver a abrir en este mundo de miserias

We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one.

Whatsume'er the failings on his part, Remember reader he were that good in his hart.

He couldn't finish the name. The final letter swelled in his throat, to the size of the whole alphabet.

Whitewash on the forehead hardens the brain into a state of obstinacy, perhaps.

Calamity with us, is made an excuse for doing wrong. With them, it is erected into a reason for their doing right. This is really the justice of rich to poor, and I protest against it because it is so.

I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed with all God's great creation. The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. I have turned from the world, and I pay the penalty.