Charles Dickens

He was an admirable man, and much to be regretted. He had a fine head of hair, and a fine set of teeth, and a fine pair of legs, and a fine pair of arms, and a fine pair of eyes, and a fine pair of ears, and a fine pair of hands, and a fine pair of feet.

The law is a ass—a idiot.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

I have been in the habit of thinking, ever since I was a child, that I ought to be something particular.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

It is a most remarkable thing that the more you have, the more you want.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

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

We forge the chains we wear in life.

What a fine thing capital punishment is! Dead men tell no tales.

It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage.

The good old times, all times when old are good.

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything.

The whole object of life is to go on being in love.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

He was a man of an amiable disposition, and a good heart; but he had a way of looking at things which was peculiar to himself.

I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.