Quotes from Charles Dickens

I am the Ghost of Christmas Present.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman's.

I'm a very umble person.

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

Oliver Twist has asked for more!

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

The heavy rain beat down the tender branches of vine and jessamine, and trampled on them in its fury; and when the lightning gleamed, it showed the tearful leaves shivering and cowering together at the window, and tapping at it urgently, as if beseeching to be sheltered from the dismal night.

The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.

Oh Sairey, Sairey, little do we know wot lays afore us!

"I am the Ghost of Christmas Past." "Long past?" inquired Scrooge…. "No. Your past."