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.

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death;⁠—the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!
A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Book the Third: The Track of a Storm, Chapter VIn context
- Liberty
- Life & Death
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Book the Third: The Track of a Storm, Chapter XVIn context
- Life & Death
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
Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together
Great Expectations (1861), Chapter XXVIIIn context
- Friendship
- Life & Death
Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.
A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIn context
- Life & Death
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
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
Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, right reverends and wrong reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.
Bleak House (1853), Chapter XLVIIIn context
- Life & Death

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