Quotes from Charles Dickens
I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.
— Charles Dickens
Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.
— Charles Dickens
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
— Charles Dickens
Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.
— Charles Dickens
There is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you.
— Charles Dickens
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
— Charles Dickens
For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
— Charles Dickens
There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.
— Charles Dickens
If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
— Charles Dickens
Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.
— Charles Dickens
The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.
— Charles Dickens
"The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts - in short," said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, "they are weaned..."
— Charles Dickens