Top 100 Dickens's Quotes

#1. Even the blind men's dogs appeared to know him; and when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then would wag their tails as though they said, 'No eye at all is better than an evil eye, dark master!

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #4168
#2. The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season's greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year be filled with joy.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #9263
#3. I nearly fell asleep over Dickens in English. Mind you, he's snoozeworthy at the best of times.

Jo Walton

Dickens's Quotes #9265
#4. "The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts - in short," said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, "they are weaned ... "

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #9747
#5. If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class.

George Orwell

Dickens's Quotes #14952
#6. I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed with all God's great creation. The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. I have turned from the world, and I pay the penalty.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #16030
#7. Her father, cheering her, showed a compassionate superiority to this woman's weakness, which was wonderful to see.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #25909
#8. Mr. Vholes's office, in disposition retiring and in situation retired, is squeezed up in a corner and blinks at a dead wall.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #42492
#9. He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #47138
#10. He had returned when he did, on the pressing and written entreaty of a French citizen, who represented that his life was endangered by his absence. He had come back, to save a citizen's life, and to bear his testimony, at whatever personal hazard, to the truth.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #56923
#11. Today, as a result of the policy of Macmillan's Government, Great Britain presents in the United Nations the face of Pecksniff and in Katanga the face of Gradgrind.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

Dickens's Quotes #69948
#12. It's like a Charles Dickens orphanage collided with a furniture-store showroom.

Craig Schaefer

Dickens's Quotes #70698
#13. Technological innovations had shifted the basis of England's economy from agriculture to industry between 1750 and 1850. The development of steam power and a boom

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #76543
#14. Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #78502
#15. I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence. Anyhow, Mr. Wopsle's Roman nose so aggravated me, during the recital of my misdemeanours, that I should have liked to pull it until he howled.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #80580
#16. At the outer door to bestow the greetings of the season on the clerk, who, cold as he was, was warmer than Scrooge; for he returned them cordially. "There's another fellow," muttered Scrooge; who overheard him: "my clerk, with fifteen

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #81208
#17. Stony One replies, in a general way, 'All right. Everybody knows where to find Durdles, when he's wanted.' Which, if not strictly true, is approximately so, if taken to express that Durdles may always be found in a state of vagabondage somewhere.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #84881
#18. It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen's case, whereby somebody else had become possessed of his roses, and he had become possessed of somebody else's thorns in addition to his own.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #90756
#19. If you look at Charles Dickens's time, there were so many different levels of society and everybody understood their place in it, it was that complex and simple. I'm not sure we have that now.

Anthony Horowitz

Dickens's Quotes #90911
#20. In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #97471
#21. There was an innocent piece of dinner-furniture that went upon easy castors and was kept over a livery stable-yard in Duke Street, Saint James's, when not in use, to whom the Veneerings were a source of blind confusion. The name of this article was Twemlow.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #98297
#22. It's a cliche to say this now, but to me, 'The Sopranos' is like Dickens. It's able to take this very focused look at something but make it epic and profound.

Stephen Merchant

Dickens's Quotes #98506
#23. She's the sort of woman now,' said Mould, ... 'one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too!

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #101940
#24. It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #130686
#25. Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #131352
#26. We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #135321
#27. I read an awful lot in college - a lot of Dickens, a lot of 19th century American stuff, a lot of old mysteries. Maybe it's helped me attain a certain fluidity with my style.

Josh Lieb

Dickens's Quotes #143953
#28. It was understood that nothing of a tender nature could possibly be confided to old Barley, by reason of his being totally unequal to the consideration of any subject more psychological than gout, rum, and purser's stores.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #155855
#29. I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #168189
#30. And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.

Connie Willis

Dickens's Quotes #193880
#31. I know this messenger, guard," said Mr. Lorry, getting down into the road - assisted from behind more swiftly than politely by the other two passengers, who immediately scrambled into the coach, shut the door, and pulled up the window. "He may come close; there's nothing wrong.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #195353
#32. Nothing is discovered without God's intention and assistance, and I suppose every new knowledge of His works that is conceded to man to be distinctly a revelation by which men are to guide themselves.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #205869
#33. There are a lot of very good New York novels, but there's no single all-encompassing novel, the way you could look at any number of Dickens books and say we know London as a result of that.

Pete Hamill

Dickens's Quotes #209278
#34. Alice!" said the visitor's mild voice, "am I late to-night?"
"You always seem late, but are always early.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #214034
#35. If you should happen, by any unlikely chance, to know a man more blest in a laugh than Scrooge's nephew, all I can say is, I should like to know him too. Introduce him to me, and I'll cultivate his acquaintance.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #214953
#36. Ah, that 'if.' But it's of no use to despond. I can but do that, when I have tried everything and failed, and even then it won't serve me much.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #218621
#37. People can try to eat the correct things, take the correct amount of exercise, worry less and so forth. But in the end fate or destiny is seen as taking its toll. People die, to use a commonly used phrase, 'when their number's up'.

Peter Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #233656
#38. I think the success of 'Downton' is partly because there are effectively 18 leading characters, all given equal importance, so it's enormously involving on many levels. But also, it's a new story. It's not like Dickens or Austen, where everyone knows the denouement.

Michelle Dockery

Dickens's Quotes #241359
#39. they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being water-proof; their clothes were scanty; and Peter might have known, and very likely did, the inside of a pawnbroker's.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #247778
#40. I would like to be going all over the kingdom ... and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #249309
#41. Snowden said carefully, 'I've been unable to get in touch with the person I thought might know about our mutual friend's difficulty.'
The guy sounded like he worked for the CIA. Or Charles Dickens.

Josh Lanyon

Dickens's Quotes #252844
#42. There's a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a Angel. That young man hears the words I speak. That young man has a secret way pecooliar to himself, of getting at a boy, and at his heart, and at his liver.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #254838
#43. The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech; but the countenance of Newman Noggs, in his ordinary moods, was a problem which no stretch of ingenuity could solve.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #286102
#44. Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #297104
#45. My poor girl, what is the matter?' She looked up suddenly, with reddened eyes, and with her hands suspended, in the act of pinching her neck, freshly disfigured with great scarlet blots. 'It's nothing to you what's the matter. It don't signify to any one.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #308365
#46. You and your horse. His strength and beauty. Your knowledge and patience and determination and understanding and love. That's what fuses the two of you onto this marvelous partnership that makes you wonder, "What can heaven offer any better then what I have here on earth?".

Monica Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #311810
#47. Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #312789
#48. Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #323749
#49. I like Mr. Dickens' books much better than yours, Papa. Said one of Thackeray's daughters.

David Markson

Dickens's Quotes #327145
#50. At the end of the day, the harsh reality is that if you're a fan of Kate Bush, Charles Dickens, Scrabble, David Attenborough and University Challenge, then there's not much out there for you in terms of a youth movement.

David Nicholls

Dickens's Quotes #330513
#51. The picturesque doctor's daughter, Miss Manette.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #333688
#52. Heavy drops fall - drip, drip, drip - upon the broad flagged pavement, called from old time the Ghost's Walk, all night.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #335639
#53. It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

David Nicholls

Dickens's Quotes #336276
#54. I have had my share of sorrows-more than the common lot, perhaps, but I have borne them ill. I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed with all God's great creation.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #340984
#55. When it comes to referring to Dickens's life, performing plays with your nine children for friends and family during Christmas is Dickensian.

Matthew Pearl

Dickens's Quotes #349475
#56. There's absolutely nothing anyone can say about my mother or myself or my step-father that we haven't heard before. You'd have to be a Dickens or a Nabakov to come up with something really offensive.

Tom Parker Bowles

Dickens's Quotes #349899
#57. It's only about young Twist, my dear,' said Mr. Sowerberry. 'A very good-looking boy, that, my dear.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #351850
#58. Toby's nose was very red, and his eye-lids were very red, and he winked very much, and his shoulders were very near his ears and his legs were very stiff, and altogether he was evidently a long way upon the frosty of cool.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #356746
#59. One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #360073
#60. Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked in poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day, or Warren's blackin' or Rowland's oil, or some o' them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #377056
#61. Tom" softly over the coach-roof.
"Hallo", Joe."
"Did you hear the message?"
"I did, Joe."
"What did you make of it, Tom?"
"Nothing at all, Joe."
"That's a coincidence, too" the guard mused, "for I made the same of it myself.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #394841
#62. The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London.

Martin Scorsese

Dickens's Quotes #399102
#63. 'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular.

Claire Tomalin

Dickens's Quotes #401805
#64. Each spoke in her own language; neither understood the other's words; both were very watchful, and intent to deduce from look and manner, what the unintelligible words meant.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #419896
#65. "Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more."

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #427821
#66. In Town VIII. Monseigneur in the Country IX. The Gorgon's Head X. Two Promises XI. A Companion Picture

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #431217
#67. A horse is a quadruped, and quadruped's latin for beast, as everybody that's gone through grammar knows, or else what's the use in having grammars at all?

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #432728
#68. Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure?"
"I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #437961
#69. His pain is over. It's better as it is!' Mrs. Tugby tried to comfort her with kindness. Mr. Tugby tried philosophy.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #438612
#70. I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #447545
#71. It's always something, to know you've done the most you could. But, don't leave off hoping, or it's of no use doing anything. Hope, hope to the last!

Charles Dickens

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#72. Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh ... he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.

A.S. Byatt

Dickens's Quotes #456857
#73. It was an instinctive testimony to Little Dorrit's worth and difference from all the rest, that the poor young fellow honoured and loved her for being simply what she was.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #458860
#74. The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'

Karin Slaughter

Dickens's Quotes #459801
#75. My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.

Debbie Macomber

Dickens's Quotes #462721
#76. Looking towards the open window, I saw light wreaths from Joe's pipe floating there, and I fancied it was like a blessing from Joe, - not obtruded on me or paraded before me, but pervading the air we shared together. I put

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #464968
#77. What I find really attractive is something that's going to be a little dangerous. Something that might get me into trouble; you know, you turn up in London and you've just rewritten Dickens. And, of course, then you think, 'What have I done?'

Peter Carey

Dickens's Quotes #465600
#78. He is the least suspicious of mankind; and whether that's a merit, or whether it's a blemish, it deserves consideration in all dealings with the Doctor, great or small.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #466682
#79. A boy with Somebody-else's pork pie! Stop him!

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #467314
#80. "Ecod, you may say what you like of my father, then, and so I give you leave," said Jonas. "I think it's liquid aggravation that circulates through his veins, and not regular blood ... "

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #479074
#81. Personal faintness, and an overpowering personal candour, were the distinguishing features of Mrs Billickin's organization. She came languishing out from her own exclusive back parlour, with the air of having been expressly brought-to for the purpose, from an accumulation of several swoons.

Charles Dickens

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#82. 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

Dickens's Quotes #505219
#83. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child. Oh

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #516225
#84. Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #523430
#85. It's a gloomy thing, however, to talk about one's own past, with the day breaking.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #524510
#86. 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

Dickens's Quotes #530342
#87. I was very glad afterwards to have had the interview; for, in her face and in her voice, and in her touch, she gave me the assurance, that suffering had been stronger than Miss Havisham's teaching, and had given her a heart to understand what my heart used to be.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #534605
#88. [ ... ] dropped his master's head upon the floor with a pretty loud crash, and then, without an effort to lift it up, gazed upon the bystanders, as if he had done something rather clever than otherwise.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #546753
#89. Charles Dickens [Project Gutenberg Editor's Note: There is also another version of this work etext98/grexp10.txt

Anonymous

Dickens's Quotes #559583
#90. My! we couldn't get him out, Tom. And besides, 'twouldn't do any good; they'd ketch him again." "Yes - so they would. But I hate to hear 'em abuse him so like the dickens when he never done - that." "I do too, Tom. Lord, I hear 'em say he's the

Mark Twain

Dickens's Quotes #571742
#91. How many crumpets, at a sittin', do you think 'ud kill me off at once?" says the patient. "I don't know," says the doctor. "Do you think half-a-crown's wurth 'ud do it?" says the patient. "I think it might," says the doctor.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #580715
#92. It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #581645
#93. I don't know how it is,' said Peggotty, 'unless it's on account of being stupid, but my head never can pick and choose its people. They come and they go, and they don't come and they don't go, just as they like. I wonder what's become of her?

Charles Dickens

Dickens's Quotes #583849
#94. No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that has accumulated since, in spite of the fact that children are now comparatively sanely treated, no novelist has shown the same power of entering into the child's point of view.

George Orwell

Dickens's Quotes #586894
#95. Mr. Bazzard's father, being a Norfolk farmer, would have furiously laid about him with a flail, a pitch-fork, and every agricultural implement available for assaulting purposes, on the slightest hint of his son's having written a play.

Charles Dickens

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#96. GREAT EXPECTATIONS [1867 Edition] by Charles Dickens [Project Gutenberg Editor's Note: There is also another version of this work etext98/grexp10.txt scanned from a different edition]

Anonymous

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#97. Country IX. The Gorgon's Head X. Two Promises XI. A Companion Picture XII. The Fellow

Charles Dickens

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#98. A bargain,' said the son. 'Here's the rule for bargains -"Do other men, for they would do you." That's the true business precept. All others are counterfeits.

Charles Dickens

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#99. Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those dark nights that hold their breath by the hour together, and then heave a long low sigh, and hold their breath again.

Charles Dickens

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#100. Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

Charles Dickens

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