1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any.If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned - would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die.

Never sign a valentine with your own name.

"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."

I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the reading, more than I have believed it in the writing.

We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.

Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats to the work.

....that the mounds of ices, and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of afterwards, in summer, by those who would preserve contented minds.