Phrases by Charles Dickens: aphorisms, quotations


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Phrases by Charles Dickens, famous quotes and aphorisms of this British writer and journalist, well known for humorous novels such as "The Pickwick Circle" and social novels such as "Oliver Twist" and "David Copperfield".


Quotes by Charles Dickens

- Injustice brings injustice, and fighting with darkness and being defeated by it necessarily brings the start of fighting.

- With the affection that shone from one eye, and the calculation from the other.


- I sympathize with his ignorance and despise him.

- The tongue; well, it's a great thing, when it's not that of a woman.

"It was true," said Mr. Barkis, "how true the taxes are." And nothing is truer than taxes.


- It takes twenty years for a woman to make her son a man, and twenty minutes for another woman to make him an idiot.

- I have a lot of boy experience, and I know I'm a bad breed (Mrs. Joe, High hopes).

- I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it with me all year round.


- Accidents occur even in the best families.

- The more one gains weight, the wiser he becomes. Belly and wisdom grow together.

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- I could never have done what I did without punctuality, order and diligence, without the decision to focus on only one object at a time.

- Tears were not things that made their way into Mr. Bumble's soul: his heart was impervious.

- Nice weather for those who are well wrapped up, as the White Bear said while skating.

- Men who take nature and their fellows into consideration and cry because everything is dark and gloomy are right; but the dark colors are the reflections of their envious eyes and hearts. True colors are delicate and need a cleaner vision.

- Any man can be cheerful and affable when he is well dressed. There is not much merit in this.

- Tie a fig tree in the way it should grow, and when you are old you can sit in its shade.

- This is a bit too much, as the lady said when she took it with the pastry chef who had sold her a meat pie full of fat.


- The language was not powerful enough to describe the childhood phenomenon.

- If nothing cares about my precious life, don't make me overturn, as that gentleman said to the coachman, when they took him to the gallows.

- There are strings in the human heart [...] that it would be better not to make vibrate.

- Don't mind it; all for my best, as the repentant schoolboy said as they whipped him.

- Everything is going as usual. The waves are hoarse by repeating their mystery; sand piles up on the shore; seabirds hover in the air and twirl ,; winds and clouds continue their flight that leaves no trace; in the moonlight the white arms nod to the invisible and distant country.

"It must have been so, and so it was, as the old lady said after the servant was married."


- The only glimmer of light in so much sadness were my books; I was faithful to them as they had remained faithful to me and I reread them from top to bottom I don't know how many times.

- It's all about knowing what the hell you want from me, as the man said when he saw the spirit.

- It's my old girlfriend who says what to do. It is she who has the brain. But I never recognize him in front of her. Discipline must be maintained.

"Give me permission to hope that you will not make me commit excesses, as that gentleman said to the stubborn snail who did not want to come out of the shell by dint of pin shots."

Aphorisms by Charles Dickens

- A smattering of everything, and nothing exact knowledge.

- Hardworking is the soul of business and the cornerstone of prosperity.

- Every child who comes into the world is more beautiful than the one who preceded him.

- It is never too late for repentance and reparation.

- Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.

- We all have wonders hidden in our hearts, we only need circumstances that evoke them.

- Great men are unlikely to be too scrupulous in waiting for their clothing.

- That it is worth spending so much trouble to learn so little, as the boy said when he got to the bottom of the alphabet, it is a matter of taste.


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

- When you drink water, do not forget the source from which it flows.

- Do you think if you and I were Italian and had grown from childhood to now constantly threatened by confessionals, prisons and hellish thugs, could you and I be better than they? Would we be so good? I, if I know myself well, no.

- When you have to take a dip in the water, it is useless to stay and contemplate it from the shore.

- Gentleman once, gentleman forever.

- Every human being is composed in such a way as to be a profound secret and a profound mystery for all the others.

- It is over and there is nothing more to do, and this is already a consolation, as they say in Turkey when they cut off the wrong man's head.

- Heaven knows that we should never be ashamed of our tears, because they are rain on the blinding dust of the earth that covers our hardened hearts.

- Drinking gin is a great English vice, but misery and dirt are worse.

- If you can't be extraordinary by following the straight path, you will never make it following the wrong one.

- He had only one eye, and popular prejudice is in favor of two.

- Those who have some good reason to believe in themselves never praise others for being esteemed.


- Any man can be cheerful and affable when he is well dressed. There is not much merit in this.

- There is no regret as profound as the impotent one, and if we want to spare ourselves his tortures, let's remember him in time.

Oliver's pillow had been fluffed by gentle hands that evening, and love and virtue watched over his sleep.

- Nobody is useless in this world if he is able to lighten the burden of another man.

- Charity begins at home, and justice from next door.

- Never close your lips to those whose hearts you have opened.

- Deeply rooted in the human chest there is a passion for hunting something.

Phrases by Charles Dickens

- Better not to have eyes than to have bad ones.

- Surprises, like bad luck, rarely come by themselves.

- All the cheaters of the earth put together are nothing compared to those who deceive themselves.

- In the company of many other old ladies of both sexes.

- What do the poor have to do with the soul and spirit?


- Hardworking is the soul of business and the cornerstone of prosperity.

- Cheerfulness and contentment embellish to a great extent, and are famous preservatives of the youthful gaze.

- Badminton is a very nice game, as long as you are not the ball and two lawyers are rackets, in which case it is too exciting to be pleasant.

- True love is blind devotion, it is humiliating oneself without asking questions, it is submitting completely, it is trusting and trusting in spite of yourself and in spite of the whole world, granting all your heart and all your soul to your tormentor.

- Perugia, equipped with great means of defense from nature and man's hand, suddenly rises on a hill.

- Who is marked by a particular defect can intuitively perceive it in others.

- The biggest principle of English law is profit. There are no other principles distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through its limited interventions.

- The night was now as dark as it would have remained until the morning, and the little light that was there seemed to come from the river rather than from the sky, when the oars, diving, hit some reflected star.

- It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

- No man who is not a gentleman in the soul has ever been, from what world is the world, a true gentleman in manners.

- An annual income of twenty pounds and annual expenses of nineteen pounds and six pence lead to happiness. An annual income of twenty pounds and annual expenses of twenty pounds and six pence lead to unhappiness.

- What a noble example of sweet English laws! They allow the poor even to go to sleep!


- It is a sad truth that every great man has his poor relationship.

- Why do you doubt your senses? Because a trifle is enough to upset them.

- Now take care: in my faith, you don't have to come here to say that you want to know, you know?

- If disease and sadness are contagious, there is nothing in the world as irresistibly contagious as rice and good humor.

- Sorry if I bother you, as the killer said throwing the old woman into the fire.

- There is a wisdom of the head, and ... a wisdom of the heart.

- On these occasions it is always better to do what the crowd does. But suppose there are two crowds, Snodgrass suggested. The bigger crowd is screaming, Pickwick replied.

- Don't ask questions, and you won't be told lies.

- This is the rule for good business: Fool the other men, because they would do it with you.

- Electrical communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their own soul encourages another person to be courageous and honest.

- There are two styles of painting portraits: the serious one, and the grin.

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