Charles Dickens Quotes

It was as true as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.

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.

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.

I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.

A bill... is the most extraordinary locomotive engine that the genius of man ever produced. It would keep on running during the longest lifetime, without ever once stopping of its own accord.

A man in public life expects to be sneered at—it is the fault of his elevated sitiwation, and not of himself.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Keep out of Chancery.... It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

"Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked 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."

We are so very 'umble.