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Charles Dickens Quotes

«There are only two styles of portrait painting, the serious and the smirk»
«The business of the law is to increase the business of the law»
Author: Charles Dickens | About: Business
«There is never enough time to do or say all the things that we would wish; The thing is to do as much as you can in the time that you have»
«Perhaps it is a good thing to have an unsound hobby ridden hard; for it is sooner ridden to death»
Author: Charles Dickens | Keywords: ridden, unsound
«It will be very generally found that those who will sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples»
Author: Charles Dickens | About: Nature | Keywords: habitually, ill nature, samples
«They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat»
«It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.»
«Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them»
Author: Charles Dickens | About: Affection | Keywords: laudable
«Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day»
Author: Charles Dickens | About: Poetry | Keywords: beadle, beadles, boxin
«Say, like those wicked Turks, there is no What's-his-name but Thingummy, and What-you-may-call-it is his prophet!»
Author: Charles Dickens | Keywords: thingummy, Turk, Turks