Charles Dickens
37 quotations
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.
I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Lord, keep my memory green.
Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Philosophers are only men in armor after all.
Here's the rule for bargains: Do other men, for they would do you. That's the true business precept.
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs.
I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.