Top 500 Charles Dickens Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation’s mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.”

— Charles Dickens

152. “She writhes under her life. A woman more angry, passionate, reckless, and revengeful never lived.”

— Charles Dickens

153. “Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more.”

— Charles Dickens

154. “Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it’s blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.”

— Charles Dickens

155. “Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.”

— Charles Dickens

156. “For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.”

— Charles Dickens

157. “Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?”

— Charles Dickens

158. “I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.”

— Charles Dickens

159. “The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.”

— Charles Dickens

160. “You are in every line I have ever read.”

— Charles Dickens

161. “There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.”

— Charles Dickens

162. “I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much.”

— Charles Dickens

163. “Please, sir, I want some more.”

— Charles Dickens

164. “Some people are nobody’s enemies but their own.”

— Charles Dickens

165. “Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.”

— Charles Dickens

166. “Come in, – come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before!”

— Charles Dickens

167. “I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.”

— Charles Dickens

168. “Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day’s wine to La Guillotine.”

— Charles Dickens

169. “I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.”

— Charles Dickens

170. “We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.”

— Charles Dickens

171. “Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.”

— Charles Dickens

172. “Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.”

— Charles Dickens

173. “Such is hope, heaven’s own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.”

— Charles Dickens

174. “If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.”

— Charles Dickens

175. “Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.”

— Charles Dickens

176. “Now, what I want is Facts.”

— Charles Dickens

177. “We must scrunch or be scrunched.”

— Charles Dickens

178. “Then I’m sorry to say, I’ve eat your pie.”

— Charles Dickens

179. “Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.”

— Charles Dickens

180. “Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.”

— Charles Dickens

181. “Don’t you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?”

— Charles Dickens

182. “For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down.”

— Charles Dickens

183. “Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.”

— Charles Dickens

184. “Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn’t paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows – they leap in like sugary ninjas.”

— Charles Dickens

185. “The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.”

— Charles Dickens

186. “The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.”

— Charles Dickens

187. “It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”

— Charles Dickens

188. “Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”

— Charles Dickens

189. “In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”

— Charles Dickens

190. “My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.”

— Charles Dickens

191. “Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.”

— Charles Dickens

192. “I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy.”

— Charles Dickens

193. “Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.”

— Charles Dickens

194. “I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason-but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner.”

— Charles Dickens

195. “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

196. “What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never molts a feather?”

— Charles Dickens

197. “When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.”

— Charles Dickens

198. “My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.”

— Charles Dickens

199. “I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disninterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.”

— Charles Dickens

200. “I went away, dear Agnes, loving you. I stayed away, loving you. I returned home, loving you!”

— Charles Dickens