Charles Dickens Quotes, Dream Quotes, Heart Quotes

Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Let me look up from it - as at last I did, thank Heaven! - and from its long, sad, wretched dream, to dawn.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Dream Quotes , Heart Quotes

Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and an implacable determination to be avenged.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Determination Quotes , Character Quotes

The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you utter us taken in, and weighed, and measured by your listener, you cannot free yourself from the influence of his presence. You are compelled to have in your thoughts not only the words you utter, but the man to whom they are spoken. You must not only talk, and talk well, but you must talk to him.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Attitude Quotes

Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Opportunity Quotes , Men Quotes

We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Silence Quotes

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Inspiring Quotes

I wear the chains I forged in life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Chains Quotes

"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Boys Quotes

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Love Quotes , Inspirational Quotes

Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with heaven, which shall always show a floating balance in their own favour.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Heaven Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Children Quotes , Grieving Quotes

Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Long Quotes , Wit Quotes

A tender young cork, however, would have had no more chance against a pair of corkscrews, or a tender young tooth against a pair of dentists, or a little shuttlecock against two battledores, than I had against Uriah and Mrs. Heep. They did just what they liked with me; and wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell, with a certainty I blush to think of.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Thinking Quotes

I could not help wondering in my own mind....how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary shapes - and whether our butcher contracted for all the deformed sheep that came into the world; but I kept my reflections to myself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Reflection Quotes , Sheep Quotes

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Light Quotes , Sun Quotes

Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Exercise Quotes , Men Quotes

Nothing is discovered without God's intention and assistance, and I suppose every new knowledge of His works that is conceded to man to be distinctly a revelation by which men are to guide themselves.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Men Quotes , Intention Quotes

One thing about this face was very strange and startling. You could not look upon it in its most cheerful mood without feeling that it had some extraordinary capacity of expressing terror. It was not on the surface. It was in no one feature that it lingered. You could not take the eyes or mouth, or lines upon the cheek, and say, if this or that were otherwise, it would not be so. Yet there it always lurked-something for ever dimly seen, but ever there, and never absent for a moment.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Eye Quotes

'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.'

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Imagination Quotes

So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Stars Quotes