Charles Dickens Quotes, Summer Quotes, Reading Quotes

This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, reading as if for life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Summer Quotes , Reading Quotes

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Funny Quotes , People Quotes

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Children Quotes , Parenting Quotes

I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

His wardrobe was extensive-very extensive-not strictly classical perhaps, not quite new, nor did it contain any one garment made precisely after the fashion of any age or time, but everything was more or less spangled; and what can be prettier than spangles!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Funny Quotes , Fashion Quotes

... Waiter! raw beef-steak for the gentleman's eye,-nothing like raw beef-steak for a bruise, sir; cold lamp-post very good, but lamp-post inconvenient-damned odd standing in the open street half-an-hour, with your eye against a lamp.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Funny Quotes , Humorous Quotes

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Heart Quotes , Night Quotes

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any.If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned - would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Discovery Quotes

Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Missing Quotes

It was a cold hard easterly morning when he latched the garden gate and turned away. The light snowfall which had feathered his schoolroom windows on the Thursday, still lingered in the air, and was falling white, while the wind blew black.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Nature Quotes , Morning Quotes

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Heart Quotes , Literature Quotes

He would make a lovely corpse.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Funny Quotes , Death Quotes

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Political Quotes , Preparation Quotes

If you can't get to be oncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. So don't tell no more on 'em, Pip, and live well and die happy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Uncommon Quotes , Live Well Quotes

I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman, weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other's soul, than I was in the souls of both.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Husband Quotes , Lying Quotes

Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Character Quotes

Dombey and Son had often dealt in hides, but never in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and boarding-schools and books. Mr. Dombey would have reasoned: That a matrimonial alliance with himself must, in the nature of things, be gratifying and honourable to any woman of common sense. That the hope of giving birth to a new partner in such a house, could not fail to awaken a glorious and stirring ambition in the breast of the least ambitious of her sex.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Funny Quotes , Girl Quotes

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Great Expectations Quotes , Strange Quotes

On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . .

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Nature Quotes , Autumn Quotes

It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising."

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Wind Quotes , Sawdust Quotes