Quote

... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us.

Charles Dickens

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Charles Dickens
Age: 58 †
Born: 1812
Born: February 7
Died: 1870
Died: June 9
Author
Editor
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Social Critic
Writer
Landport
Hampshire
Dickens
C.Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens
Boz
Book
Plain
Good
Sorrow
Never
Trouble
Face
Faces
Half
Read
Inspirational

More quotes by Charles Dickens

Image
Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.
Charles Dickens
Image
Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures for they struggle hard to be such.
Charles Dickens
Image
things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up
Charles Dickens
Image
Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.
Charles Dickens
Image
I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee.
Charles Dickens
Image
You speak so feelingly and so manfully, Charles Darnay
Charles Dickens
Image
Christmas a humbug, uncle! said Scrooge's nephew. You don't mean that, I am sure? I do, said Scrooge. Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.
Charles Dickens
Image
This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.
Charles Dickens
Image
Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.
Charles Dickens
Image
While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.
Charles Dickens
Image
Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.
Charles Dickens
Image
Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.
Charles Dickens
Image
A good thing can't be cruel.
Charles Dickens
Image
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
Charles Dickens
Image
There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect
Charles Dickens
Image
United metropolitan improved hot muffin and crumpet baking and punctual delivery company.
Charles Dickens
Image
Ven you read the speeches in the papers, and see as vun gen'lman says of another, 'the Honourable member, if he vill allow me to call him so' you vill understand, sir, that that means, 'if he vill allow me to keep up that 'ere pleasant and uniwersal fiction.'
Charles Dickens
Image
You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.
Charles Dickens
Image
Philosophers are only men in armor after all.
Charles Dickens
Image
An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror.
Charles Dickens