1,913 Quotes by Charles Dickens

Credit is a system whereby a person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay.

People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.

I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to beat, I would cease to be. But you know what I mean. I have no softness there, no—sympathy—sentiment—nonsense.

The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.

A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence.

Mr. Bazzard's father, being a Norfolk farmer, would have furiously laid about him with a flail, a pitch-fork, and every agricultural implement available for assaulting purposes, on the slightest hint of his son's having written a play.