Quotes from Charles Dickens

He'd make a lovely corpse.

A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!

I [Marley's Ghost] wear the chain I forged in life.

Never… be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

My life is one demd horrid grind.

I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys, and beef-faced boys.

"In case anything turned up," which was his [Mr. Micawber's] favorite expression.

You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

It was a maxim with Foxey—our revered father, gentlemen—"Always suspect everybody."

I ate umble pie with an appetite.

It's a mad world. Mad as Bedlam.

He has gone to the demnition bowwows.

Be wery careful o' widders all your life.

"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."

[H]is gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from him. Many of us would, if we could; but none of us so much as know our letters in the stars yet - or seem likely to do it in this state of existence - and few languages can be read until their alphabets are mastered.

I pity his ignorance and despise him.

What is the odds so long as the fire of soul is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather!

"An observer of human nature, sir," said Mr. Pickwick.

There's light enough for wot I've got to do.

She knows wot's wot, she does.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism, are all very good words for the lips: especially prunes and prism.

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

The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing on chamber windows, and twinkling through blind and curtain before sleepers' eyes, shed light even into dreams, and chased away the shadows of the night.