Quotes by : Charles Dickens

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle....

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities....

. . . such a rush immediately ensued that she with laughing face and plundered dress was borne towards....

A faithful dependent, I overlook his folly.

Who am I, for God's sake, that I should be kind!

The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.

He had a certain air of being a handsome man--which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred....

The fire? It has been alive as long as I have. We talk and think together all night long. It’s like....

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

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling....