Charles Dickens Quotes
The foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner.
(1812 - 1870)
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"Let us be merry," said Mr. Pecksniff.
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"The world," is a conventional phrase, which being interpreted, signifies all the rascality in it.
[World]
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'Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be.
[Humility]
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A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
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A good, contented, well-breakfasted juryman is a capital thing to get hold of. Discontented jurymen always find for the plaintiff.
[Law]
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A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
[Heart]
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A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men can tell. Assembling and dispersing with equal suddenness, it is as difficult to follow to its various sources as the sea itself; nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when roused, more unreasonable or more cruel.
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A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.
[Able]
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A wailing, rushing sound, which shook the walls as though a giant's hand were on them; then a hoarse roar, as if the sea had risen; then such a whirl and tumult that the air seemed mad; and then, with a lengthened howl, the waves of wind swept on.
[Wind]
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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
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Alas! how few of nature's faces there are to gladden us with their beauty! - The cares, and sorrows, and hungerings of the world change them, as they change hearts; and it is only when the passions sleep and have lost their hold forever that the troubled clouds pass off, and leave heaven's surface clear. - It is a common thing for the countenances of the dead, even in that fixed and rigid state, to subside into the long forgotten expression of infancy, and settle into the very look of early life. - So calm, so peaceful do they grow again, that those who knew them in their happy childhood, kneel by the coffin's side in awe, and see the angels even upon earth.
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Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
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An idea, like a ghost, according to the common notion of ghosts, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
[Ideas]
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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness.
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Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
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Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
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Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
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Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.
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