The quotations of

Charles Dickens

English novelist and social critic

1812–1870

60 quotes, most often on Christmas, Life & Death and Love. Part of the Writers collection.

My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
Great Expectations (1861), Chapter IIn context
Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.
Great Expectations (1861), Chapter IIIn context
- Truth & Lies
In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.
Great Expectations (1861), Chapter VIIIIn context
- Children
- Justice
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.
Great Expectations (1861), Chapter IXIn context
- Change
- Life & Death
Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
Great Expectations (1861), Chapter XXVIIIn context
- Character
Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together
Great Expectations (1861), Chapter XXVIIIn context
- Friendship
- Life & Death
“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.”
Great Expectations (1861), Chapter XLIn context
- Facts
- Truth & Lies
You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then.
Great Expectations (1861), Chapter XLIVIn context
- Love
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but⁠—I hope⁠—into a better shape.
Great Expectations (1861), Chapter LIXIn context
- Change
- Experience
I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.
Great Expectations (1861), Chapter LIXIn context
- Hope
- Love
Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.
A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIn context
- Life & Death
“Bah!” said Scrooge, “Humbug!”
A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIn context
- Christmas
If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIn context
- Charity
I wear the chain I forged in life
A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIn context
- Responsibility
“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”
A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIn context
- Business
- Charity

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