Quotes from Charles Dickens

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some other man's today... and will come around for me tomorrow.

Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats to the work.

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

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.

There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.

it's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly.

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings.

We are so very 'umble.

There is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you.

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.

If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.

Christmas may not bring a single thing; still, it gives me a song to sing.

The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.

"The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts - in short," said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, "they are weaned..."

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.