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Famous Charles Dickens Quotes
“Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!”
“Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.”
“'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.”
“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
“There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.”
“He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.”
“The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.”
“Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.”
“There might be some credit in being jolly.”
“The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.”
“You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.”
“Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.”
“There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.”
“I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy”
“Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.”
“Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?”
“The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.”
“United metropolitan improved hot muffin and crumpet baking and punctual delivery company.”
“If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot.”