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Charles Dickens
English
Novelist
About the author
Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#State
#Man
#Old
#Ugly
#Pride
#Blush
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Nothing
#Pain
#Meeting
#Joy
#Parting
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Law
#English
#Business
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#World
#Men
#Brother
#Endurance
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#First
#Men
#Business
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Will
#Money
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Past
#Age
#Chivalry
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Past
#Man
#Men
#Present
#Blessings
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Nature
#Human nature
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Sorrow
#Renunciation
Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Property
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Difference
#Creation
'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Love
#World
#Baby
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,
English
Novelist
#Poor
#Machine
#Nerves
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Words
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Society
#Pity
#Change
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Heart
#Nature
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#World
#Burden
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Youth
#Man
#Old
#Quiet
#Childhood
#Christmas
You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#People
#Man
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Life
#Heart
We forge the chains we wear in life.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Life
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Life
#Nothing
#Truth
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Vices
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Books
This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Action
#World
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Heart
#Wisdom
There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Heart
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Painting
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,
English
Novelist
#Pleasure
#Vocation
#Excitement
#Charity
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Earth
#Contrast
#Shadows
We are so very 'umble.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Credit
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#May
#Man
#Spirits
#Credit
#Temper
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Heart
#Temper
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Men
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Friendship
#Wine
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,
English
Novelist
#Will
#Soul
#Communication
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,
English
Novelist
#Home
#Spirit
#Word
#Name
Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#People
#Dignity
#Questions
#Holiness
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Will
#Day
#Men
#Idea
#Trust
#Honesty
#Nonsense
#Quantity
#Dishonesty
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,
English
Novelist
#Passion
#Cows
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Home
#Justice
#Charity
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Life
#Man
#Quick
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Time
#Night
#Nature
#Progress
#Grave
He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Eye
#Prejudice
Do you spell it with a "V" or a "W"?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Taste
#Fancy
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Poor
#Men
#Truth
#Melancholy
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Men
#Business
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#People
#Being
#May
#Fact
#Complaint
Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Life
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Existence
It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Old
#Discipline
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Light
#March
#Wind
#Sun
#Summer
#Winter
He would make a lovely corpse.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#World
#Baby
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Time
#Determination
#Order
#Diligence
#Habits
#Punctuality
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,
English
Novelist
#Rest
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.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Nothing
#Children
#World
#Existence
#Injustice
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#People
#Lawyers
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Will
#Heart
#Honor
#Christmas
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Butterflies
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Eyes
#Temper
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Heart
#Wisdom
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Day
#Self
A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Walking
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,
English
Novelist
#People
#Taste
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Will
#Idea
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
Charles Dickens,
English
Novelist
#Fact
#Mystery