Quotes from Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

It was not very long before that room again knew her, often; sitting there alone, as patient and as mild as when she had watched beside the little bed. When any sharp sense of its being empty smote upon her, she could kneel beside it, and pray GOD — it was the pouring out of her full heart — to let one angel love her and remember her.

Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.

I wants to make your flesh creep...

But it was home. And though home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit answered to, in strongest conjuration.

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?

... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

"Lord bless you!" said Mr. Omer, resuming his pipe, "a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must make up his mind to, in this life. "

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.

What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!

Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.

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

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you

An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.

Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

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

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

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