Charles Dickens Collection Quotes

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.”
― Doma Publishing House, Charles Dickens Collection: 55 Works

“I wear the chain I forged in life,”
― Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens: Collection of 150 Classic Works with analysis and historical background

“Ye men of gloom and austerity, who paint the face of Infinite Benevolence with an eternal frown; read in the Everlasting Book, wide open to your view, the lesson it would teach. Its pictures are not in black and sombre hues, but bright and glowing tints; its music—save when ye drown it—is not in sighs and groans, but songs and cheerful sounds. Listen to the million voices in the summer air, and find one dismal as your own. Remember, if ye can, the sense of hope and pleasure which every glad return of day awakens in the breast of all your kind who have not changed their nature; and learn some wisdom even from the witless, when their hearts are lifted up they know not why, by all the mirth and happiness it brings.”
― Doma Publishing House, Charles Dickens Collection: 55 Works

“So I've only this here one little bit of adwice to give you. If ever you gets to up'ards o' fifty, and feels disposed to go a-marryin' anybody—no matter who—jist you shut yourself up in your own room, if you've got one, and pison yourself off hand. Hangin's wulgar, so don't you have nothin' to say to that. Pison yourself, Samivel, my boy, pison yourself, and you'll be glad on it arterwards.”
― Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens Collection: 55 Works

“Girl number twenty possessed of no facts, in reference to one of the commonest of animals!”
― Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens: Collection of 150 Classic Works with analysis and historical background

“there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart; so rendered and so free from any mercenary taint,”
― Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens Collection: 55 Works

“the winds of winter”
― Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens: The Complete Novels

“There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you”
― Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens: Collection of 150 Classic Works with analysis and historical background

“unselfish thought; not a word. Tom, Tom! The man in all this world most confident in his sagacity and shrewdness; the man in all this world most proud of his distrust of other men, and having most to show in gold and silver as the gains belonging to his creed; the meekest favourer of that wise doctrine, Every man for himself, and God for us all (there being high wisdom in the thought that the Eternal Majesty of Heaven ever was, or can be, on the side of selfish lust and love!); shall never find, oh, never find, be sure of that, the time come home to him, when all his wisdom is an”
― Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens's Collected Works

“corpulent.”
― Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens: Collection of 150 Classic Works with analysis and historical background

“I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world. Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!”
― Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens: Collection of 150 Classic Works with analysis and historical background

“Dombey and Son”
― Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens: Collection of 150 Classic Works with analysis and historical background

“Are infants to be nut-crackered into their tombs, and is nobody to save them?”
― Doma Publishing House, Charles Dickens Collection: 55 Works