Quotes from Charles Dickens

She'll wish there was more, and that's the great art o' letter-writin'.

The unities, sir… are a completeness—a kind of universal dove-tailedness with regard to place and time.

That's the state to live and die in!… R-r-rich!

Never mind the character, and stick to the alleybi.

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Rather a tough customer in argyment.

"Wal'r, my boy," replied the Captain, "in the Proverbs of Solomon you will find the following words, 'May we never want a friend in need, nor a bottle to give him!' When found, make a note of."

A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.

A merry Christmas to everybody A happy New Year to all the world

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.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

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

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...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.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.

God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.

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

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

Once upon a time--of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve--old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house.

Scrooge's wealth goes to hell.

The law is sic a ass - a idiot.

Then Bob proposed 'A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us' Which all his family re-echoed. 'God bless us every one' said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

There is a wisdom of the head, and ... a wisdom of the heart.