~ Charles Dickens Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

[MysteRy]

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

[MysteRy]

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

[MysteRy]

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

[MysteRy]

It's over and can't be helped and that's one consolation as they always say in Turkey when they cut the wrong man's head off.

[MysteRy]

It is a far far better thing that I do than anything I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

[MysteRy]

Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes.

[MysteRy]

Happy happy Christmas that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

[MysteRy]

I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time. A kind forgiving charitable pleasant time. The only time I know of in the long calendar of the year when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

[MysteRy]

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week if there is anything to be got by it.

[MysteRy]

I do come home at Christmas. We all do or we all should. We all come home or ought to come home for a short holiday -- the longer the better -- from the great boarding school where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates to take and give a rest.

[MysteRy]

I have known him (Micawber) come home to supper with a flood of tears and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail; and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house 'in case anything turned up ' which was his favorite expression.