1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

There ain’t a gen’lm’n in all the land – nor yet sailing upon all the sea – that can love his lady more than I love her.

We must have humbug, we all like humbug, we couldn't get on without humbug.

...if they would but think how hard it is for the very poor to have engendered in their hearts, that love of home from which all domestic virtues spring, when they live in dense and squalid masses where social decency is lost, or rather never found ... and [those who rule] strive to improve the wretched dwellings in bye-ways where only Poverty may walk ... In hollow voices from Workhouse, Hospital, and jail, this truth is preached from day to day, and has been proclaimed for years.

[...] There are tales among us that you have sold yourself to the devil, and I know not what.''We all have, have we not?' returned the stranger, looking up. 'If we were fewer in number, perhaps he would give better wages.

The happiness he gives is quite as great, as if it cost a fortune.

The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become.

E, assim como as neblinas da manhã haviam se dissipado, quando, há muito tempo, eu deixara a ferraria, as neblinas da noite dissipavam-se agora, e em toda a vasta expansão iluminada que me deixavam avistar, não vi a sombra de uma nova despedida de Estella.

Cincinnati is a beautiful city; cheerful, thriving, and animated. I have not often seen a place that commends itself so favourably and pleasantly to a stranger at the first glance as this does.

The inhabitants of Cincinnati are proud of their city as one of the most interesting in America: and with good reason.