Charles Dickens Quotes

Hear what the author of "Oliver Twist" has to say.

• Change begets change.

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

• Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

• Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

• Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

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

• Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

• If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

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

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

• There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.