1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

To have a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!

The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.

Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison.

Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.

May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.

Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress.

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.