Charles Dickens Quotes & Sayings

“Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.”

“Discipline must be maintained.”

“There might be some credit in being jolly.”

“He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.”

“The first rule of business is: Do other men, for they would do you.”

“I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.”

“Reflect upon your present blessings.”

“Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.”

“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”

“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”

“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.”

“We forge the chains we wear in life.”

“Death is a mighty, universal truth.”

“People like us don't go out at night, because people like them see us for what we are.”

“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?”

“There wasn't room to swing a cat there.”

“"Anything for the quick life," the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.”

“Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.”

“There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.”

“She writhes under her life. A woman more angry, passionate, reckless, and revengeful never lived.”

“One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of the earth.”

“Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.”

“And O, there are days in this life worth life and worth death.”

“The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.”