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.

God bless us every one!
A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIIIn context
- Christmas
- God
Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man’s child.
A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIIIn context
- Charity
- Life & Death
This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.
A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIIIn context
- Charity
- Education
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.
A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IVIn context
- Christmas
- Time
I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world.
A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave VIn context
- Christmas
- Happiness
His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.
A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave VIn context
- Happiness
- Laughter
It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!
A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave VIn context
- Christmas
“Please, sir, I want some more.”
Oliver Twist (1838), Chapter IIIn context
- Food
There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
Oliver Twist (1838), Chapter XIn context
- Character
Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
Oliver Twist (1838), Chapter XXXVIIIn context
- Character
- Pride
“If the law supposes that,” said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, “the law is a ass⁠—a idiot. If that’s the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience⁠—by experience.”
Oliver Twist (1838), Chapter LIIn context
- Clever Jabs
- Laws
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
David Copperfield (1850), Chapter 1In context
- Character
- Life & Death
Barkis is willin’.
David Copperfield (1850), Chapter 5In context
- Marriage
A loving heart was better and stronger than wisdom
David Copperfield (1850), Chapter 9In context
- Love
- Wisdom
I never will desert Mr. Micawber.
David Copperfield (1850), Chapter 12In context
- Marriage

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