1812-1870, British Novelist
He would make a lovely corpse.
Charles Dickens – [Death and Dying]

Here's the rule for bargains: ''Do other men, for they would do you.'' That's the true business precept.
Charles Dickens – [Bargains]

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
Charles Dickens – [Home]

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
Charles Dickens – [Bores and Boredom]

I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomized our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me.
Charles Dickens – [Sarcasm]

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
Charles Dickens – [Gentlemen]

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
Charles Dickens – [Cheerfulness]

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.
Charles Dickens – [Villains]

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time…
Charles Dickens – [Concentration]

I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.
Charles Dickens – [Boys]

I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.
Charles Dickens – [Husbands]

If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.
Charles Dickens – [America]

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Charles Dickens – [Law and Lawyers]

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
Charles Dickens – [Business]

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens – [Greatness]

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 every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
Charles Dickens – [Babies]

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
Charles Dickens – [Cries and Crying]

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.
Charles Dickens – [Audiences]

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 – [Wives]

Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.
Charles Dickens – [Law and Lawyers]

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