Dickens Quotes

Welcome, old aspirations, glittering creatures of an ardent underneath the holly! We know you, and h...

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.

Good for Christmas-time is the ruddy colour of the cloak in which--the tree making a forest of itsel...

That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea ...

Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked do...

I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.

You are hard at work madam ," said the man near her.Yes," Answered Madam Defarge ; " I have a good d...

LONDON. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacab...

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty...

Spring is the time of the year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade

It was an instinctive testimony to Little Dorrit's worth and difference from all the rest, that the ...

The year was dying early, the leaves were falling fast, it was a raw cold day when we took possessio...

...the cab of the truck heated up nicely, its windows fogging. I felt like a Dickens character. I th...

Mr. Charles Dickens was serializing his novel Oliver Twist; Mr. Draper had just taken the first phot...

Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy mino...

(from his random observations after reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens)In the Old Curiosit...

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's re...

I know that I am going to meet a personal variation on reality; a partial view of reality. But I kno...

(On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has inv...