Top 50 Quotes by Charles Dickens

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

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

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

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.