Charles Dickens's quotes

About Charles Dickens

He gave the world the epic tales of Jean Valjean's redemption and Quasimodo's tragic love, championing the poor and oppressed. More than a novelist, he was a fiery political voice whose words helped shape modern France.

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Trust

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare...

Charles Dickens 12

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

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It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Charles Dickens 12

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

Charles Dickens 14

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Charles Dickens 11

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

Charles Dickens 14

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Charles Dickens 13

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that...

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