Charles Dickens Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

81 Famous Quotes by Charles Dickens
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“Man blames fate for other accidents, but feels personally responsible when he makes a hole in one”
Accidents Quotes
“A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times”
Appetite Quotes
“Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last”
Babies Quotes
“Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.”
Bravery Quotes
“A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!”
Christmas Quotes
“He would make a lovely corpse.”
Funerals Quotes
“A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!”
Literary Quotes
“Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some”
Misfortune Quotes
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair . . . in short, the period was so far like the present period . . . .”
Personality Quotes
“Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christ”
Religious love Quotes
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known”
Rest Quotes
“If you don't like the weather, wait a minute”
Weather Quotes
“Barkis is willin'!”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield (ch. I)
“It's my girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.”
Wives Quotes
Source: Bleak House (ch. XXVII)
“God bless us every one.”
Blessings Quotes
Source: A Christmas Carol (stave 3)
“With affection beaming in one eye and calculation shining out of the other.”
Eyes Quotes
Source: The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (ch. VIII)
“Why then we should drop into poetry.”
Poetry Quotes
Source: Our Mutual Friend (bk. I, ch. V)
“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.”
Friendship Quotes
Source: The Old Curiosity Ship (ch. VII)
“What is the odds so long as the fire of souls is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather?”
Friendship Quotes
Source: The Old Curiosity Shop (ch. II)
“Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly observed to me, sitting down on the foot of the bed, nursing his leg, "You know, Trotwood, I don't want to swing a cat. I never do swing a cat. Therefore what does that signify to me?"”
Cats Quotes
Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield (vol. II, ch. VI)
“When I got up to the Peacock--where I found everybody drinking hot punch in self-preservation.”
Drinking Quotes
Source: The Holly Tree Inn
“"Wery good power o' suction, Sammy," said Mr. Weller the elder. . . . "You'd ha' made an uncommon fine oyster, Sammy, if you'd been born in that station o' life."”
Drinking Quotes
Source: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (ch. XXIII)
“Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.”
Oysters Quotes
Source: A Christmas Carol (stave 1)
“It's a wery remarkable circumstance, sir," said Sam, "that poverty and oysters always seem to go together."”
Oysters Quotes
Source: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (ch. XXII)
“Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.”
Accident Quotes
Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield (ch. XXVIII)