1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over.

Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it.

So does a whole world, with all of its greatness and littleness, lie in a twinkling star.

I went away, dear Agnes, loving you. I stayed away, loving you. I returned home, loving you!

Want and sickness are too common in many stations of life to deserve more notice than is usually bestowed on the most ordinary vicissitudes of human nature.

Hush. Don't ask any questions. It's always best on these occasions to do what the mob do.""But suppose there are two mobs?" suggested Mr. Snodgrass. "Shout with the largest," replied Mr. Pickwick. Volumes could not have said more.

I ain't took so many year to make a gentleman, not without knowing what's due to him.

Life is made of so many partings welded together.

Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures," replied Estella, with a glance towards him, "hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?