Charles Dickens Quotes

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature

Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead.

Charles Dickens

Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.

Charles Dickens

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Charles Dickens

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year.

Charles Dickens

Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within; . . .

Charles Dickens

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

Charles Dickens

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Charles Dickens

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are

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Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Charles Dickens

If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.

Charles Dickens

If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.

Charles Dickens

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Charles Dickens