Charles Dickens

I have always been of the opinion that the best way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

It is a principle of the human mind, that the more we have, the more we want, and the less we have, the less we want.

I am a man who has a good deal of respect for the law, but I have a good deal more respect for justice.

I have always been of the opinion that the best thing a man can do is to keep his own counsel.

It is a very remarkable thing, that the very people who are most anxious to get into society are the very people who are least fitted for it.

I am a man who has always been very sensitive to the opinions of others, and I have always been very anxious to stand well with them.

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

It is a most extraordinary thing that I have never been able to get a moment's peace in my life, without having to pay for it.

I am a believer in Marley’s Ghost.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

The sun himself has never looked upon anything so ridiculous as this.

I am always deeply interested in the subject of public executions, and think that the great number of persons whom they attract, derive a salutary horror and warning from the spectacle.

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 honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

I am convinced that nothing has effectually suffered in the world but for want of money.

The American women are certainly not pretty... They are not graceful, they are not elegant, they are not accomplished, they are not intellectual, they are not virtuous, and they are not honest.

The Radicals are a set of men who would pull down everything, and build up nothing.

I have known a good many people who have had their heads cut off, and I never knew one who didn't deserve it.

The English are, so far as I know, the hardest worked people on whom the sun shines. Be content if in their wretched intervals of leisure they read for amusement and do no worse.

I am always hearing of the good old times. I wish to Heaven the good old times had never come back again.

I have known a vast amount of nonsense talked about the dignity of labour. The dignity of labour is a comfortable thing to contemplate, but it is not a comfortable thing to experience.