Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens is the author of popular works like: Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, Christmas Carol, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield and others. It is unlikely that there is anybody who has studied English, but has not read Charles Dickens. Here are some of the most famous Charles Dickens quotes.

• David Copperfield
  Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.
  
  
• Dombey and Son
  A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.
  
  
• Bleak House
  The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me.
  
  
• Barnaby Rudge
  Mrs. Varden was a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper -- a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.
  
  
• Oliver Twist
  Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
  
  
• Martin Chuzzlewit
  With affection beaming in one eye and calculation shining out of the other.
  
  
• Bleak House
  "Think! I’ve got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking."
  
  
• David Copperfield
  I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going… let the other be where he may.
  
  
• Oliver Twist
  There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
  
  
• A Christmas Carol, Stave I
  Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
  
  
• Bleak House
  A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
  
  
• Dombey and Son
  But what was a girl to Dombey and Son! In the capital of the House's name and dignity, such a child was merely a piece of base coin that couldn't be invested -- a bad Boy -- nothing more.
  
  
• David Copperfield
  "When a man says he's willin'," said Mr. Barkis, "it's as much as to say, that man's a-waitin' for a answer."
  
  
• Bleak House
  It's my girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.