Quotes

"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass in a broken voice, "it was the salmon."
-Charles Dickens

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
-Charles Dickens

"There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, ". . . in the human heart that had better not be wibrated."
-Charles Dickens

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
-Charles Dickens

A friendly swarry, consisting of a boiled leg of mutton with the usual trimmings.
-Charles Dickens

He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely considered him a humbug in a Pickwickian point of view.
-Charles Dickens

He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.
-Charles Dickens

Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
-Charles Dickens

When I got up to the Peacock--where I found everybody drinking hot punch in self-preservation.
-Charles Dickens

It's my girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
-Charles Dickens

The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.
-Charles Dickens

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
-Charles Dickens

A person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.
-Charles Dickens

Why then we should drop into poetry.
-Charles Dickens

In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile.
-Charles Dickens

I never will desert Mr. Micawber.
-Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist has asked for more.
-Charles Dickens

"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."
-Anonymous Author

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of Earth, overlaying our hard hearts.
-Charles Dickens

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
-Charles Dickens

There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.
-Charles Dickens

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
-Charles Dickens

"And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison."
-Charles Dickens

Jobling, there are chords in the human mind.
-Charles Dickens

Oh the nerves, the nerves, the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
-Charles Dickens

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
-Charles Dickens

It's a wery remarkable circumstance, sir," said Sam, "that poverty and oysters always seem to go together."
-Charles Dickens

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.
-Charles Dickens

"When a man says he's willin'," said Mr. Barkis, "it's as much as to say, that man's a-waitin' for a answer."
-Charles Dickens

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?
-Charles Dickens

Circumstances beyond my individual control.
-Charles Dickens

I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going . . . let the other be where he may.
-Charles Dickens

The next time you go out to a smoking party, young feller, fill your pipe with that 'ere reflection.
-Charles Dickens

With affection beaming in one eye and calculation shining out of the other.
-Charles Dickens

'Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be.
-Charles Dickens

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than anything I have ever done; it is a far, far, better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
-Charles Dickens