Quotes by Dickens, Charles

"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature ."

Dickens, Charles on abstinence
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"Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life."

Dickens, Charles on age and aging
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"Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay."

Dickens, Charles on debt
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"Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire."

Dickens, Charles on dress   

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"There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated."

Dickens, Charles on emotions
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"The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother."

Dickens, Charles on endurance   

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"Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence."

Dickens, Charles on existence   

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"He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two."

Dickens, Charles on eyes
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"Now, what I want is, facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!"

Dickens, Charles on facts   

"Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy."

Dickens, Charles on family   

"Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us."

Dickens, Charles on friends and friendship   

"The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better."

Dickens, Charles on gentlemen
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"I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together."

Dickens, Charles on gentlemen
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"Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew."

Dickens, Charles on alcohol and alcoholism
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"If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe."

Dickens, Charles on america   

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"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

Dickens, Charles on gratitude
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"It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations."

Dickens, Charles on greatness   

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"Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration."

Dickens, Charles on home
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"Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad."

Dickens, Charles on hope
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"There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast."

Dickens, Charles on hunting   

"I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort."

Dickens, Charles on husbands   

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"With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other."

Dickens, Charles on hypocrisy
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"If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers."

Dickens, Charles on law and lawyers
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"Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains."

Dickens, Charles on law and lawyers   

"Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse."

Dickens, Charles on life   

"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together."

Dickens, Charles on life   

"This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in."

Dickens, Charles on life   

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

Dickens, Charles on love
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"When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste."

Dickens, Charles on marriage
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"Lord, keep my memory green."

Dickens, Charles on memory
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"Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort."

Dickens, Charles on mind   

"Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort."

Dickens, Charles on mind   

"Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!"

Dickens, Charles on money   

"Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!"

Dickens, Charles on neurosis   

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"They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat."

Dickens, Charles on newspapers   

"Philosophers are only men in armor after all."

Dickens, Charles on philosophers and philosophy   

"The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread -- in Ireland, sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!"

Dickens, Charles on politics   

"It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand."

Dickens, Charles on audiences   

"It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last."

Dickens, Charles on babies   

"Here's the rule for bargains: Do other men, for they would do you. That's the true business precept."

Dickens, Charles on bargains