Charles Dickens quotes

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. (Charles Dickens)
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Charles Dickens
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
Charles Dickens
I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
Charles Dickens
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
Charles Dickens
Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
Charles Dickens
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.
Charles Dickens
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
Charles Dickens
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
Charles Dickens
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. (Charles Dickens)
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens
It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
Charles Dickens
Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
Charles Dickens
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
Charles Dickens
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens
Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
Charles Dickens
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
Charles Dickens
Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies. (Charles Dickens)
If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.
Charles Dickens
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
Charles Dickens
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Charles Dickens
In love of home, the love of country has its rise.
Charles Dickens