Quotes about Time
I am the Ghost of Christmas Present.
— Charles Dickens
"I am the Ghost of Christmas Past." "Long past?" inquired Scrooge…. "No. Your past."
— Charles Dickens
Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
— Charles Dickens
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.
— Charles Dickens
Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.
— Charles Dickens
I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.
— Charles Dickens
You talk very easily of hours, sir! How long do you suppose, sir, that an hour is to a man who is choking for want of air?
— Charles Dickens
Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences, for all good.
— Charles Dickens
Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?...
— Charles Dickens
I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.
— Charles Dickens
I am not going to guess, at five o'clock in the morning, with my brains frying and sputtering in my head. If you want me to guess, you must ask me to dinner.
— Charles Dickens
Scattered wits take a long time picking up; and often before I had got them well together, they would be dispersed in all directions by one stray thought,
— Charles Dickens