Charles Dickens Quotes, Men Quotes, Excellent Quotes

a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Men Quotes , Excellent Quotes

It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Perseverance Quotes

... The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Eye Quotes

In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Marley Quotes , Jacob Quotes

Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Travel Quotes , Home Quotes

I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Literature Quotes , Made Quotes

The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Heart Quotes , Violent Quotes

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Regret Quotes , Hard Times 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

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Business Quotes , Soul Quotes

Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Girl Quotes , Hard Times Quotes

God bless us, every one!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Blessing Quotes , God Bless Quotes

I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Want Quotes , Faces Quotes

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Love Quotes , Heart 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

I only ask for information.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Information Quotes

Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Lying Quotes , Views Quotes

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , People Quotes , Next Quotes

For who can wonder that man should feel a vague belief in tales of disembodied spirits wandering through those places which they once dearly affected, when he himself, scarcely less separated from his old world than they, is for ever lingering upon past emotions and bygone times, and hovering, the ghost of his former self, about the places and people that warmed his heart of old?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Heart Quotes , Past Quotes