Charles Dickens Quotes
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201. “The sun, – the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man – burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.”

— Charles Dickens

202. “One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.”

— Charles Dickens

203. “We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!”

— Charles Dickens

204. “I hope you care to be recalled to life?”

— Charles Dickens

205. “Are there no prisons?”

— Charles Dickens

206. “The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.”

— Charles Dickens

207. “My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention.”

— Charles Dickens

208. “Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.”

— Charles Dickens

209. “A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so.”

— Charles Dickens

210. “Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.”

— Charles Dickens

211. “A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.”

— Charles Dickens

212. “The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.”

— Charles Dickens

213. “Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.”

— Charles Dickens

214. “Grief never mended no broken bones.”

— Charles Dickens

215. “I wear the chain I forged in life,” replied the ghost. “I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.”

— Charles Dickens

216. “There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.”

— Charles Dickens

217. “I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.”

— Charles Dickens

218. “He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been, in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away, by the fervour of this reproach.”

— Charles Dickens

219. “There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.”

— Charles Dickens

220. “It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.”

— Charles Dickens

221. “To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.”

— Charles Dickens

222. “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.”

— Charles Dickens

223. “The more especially, as in my juvenile frankness, I took some credit to myself for being so confidential and felt that I was quite the patron of my two respectful entertainers.”

— Charles Dickens

224. “When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.”

— Charles Dickens

225. “Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.”

— Charles Dickens

226. “If the parks be “the lungs of London” we wonder what Greenwich Fair is – a periodical breaking out, we suppose – a sort of spring rash.”

— Charles Dickens

227. “Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.”

— Charles Dickens

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

— Charles Dickens

229. “The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.”

— Charles Dickens

230. “So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.”

— Charles Dickens

231. “With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing.”

— Charles Dickens

232. “Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.”

— Charles Dickens

233. “There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.”

— Charles Dickens

234. “Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.”

— Charles Dickens

235. “Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.”

— Charles Dickens

236. “Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.”

— Charles Dickens

237. “Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.”

— Charles Dickens

238. “You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me.”

— Charles Dickens

239. “The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.”

— Charles Dickens

240. “Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy. -Miss Havisham.”

— Charles Dickens

241. “In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease – a terrible passing inclination to die of it.”

— Charles Dickens

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

— Charles Dickens

243. “One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind.”

— Charles Dickens

244. “The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.”

— Charles Dickens

245. “Friendship? Yes Please.”

— Charles Dickens

246. “Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?”

— Charles Dickens

247. “A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us!” Which all the family re-echoed. “God bless us every one!” said Tiny Tim, the last of all.”

— Charles Dickens

248. “Lord, keep my memory green.”

— Charles Dickens

249. “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

250. “Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows – and china.”

— Charles Dickens