Charles Dickens Quotes

English - Novelist | February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Charles Dickens

LifeTogetherMadeManyEver

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

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LifeManSituationSaidQuickHe

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

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HomeJusticeDoorCharityNext

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

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PaintingPortraitSeriousTwoOnly

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

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FriendshipFlameWinePassSinking

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

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NatureMorningTimeProgressNight

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

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FreedomFreeAskOnlyButterflies

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

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TruthGreatMenPoorGreat MenEven

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

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EyesDownCryTemperAwayLungs

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

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GoodWordsLipsPotatoesPrismPapa

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

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NatureHeartI AmLipsI CanNever

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

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LivePassionFarmChinaRetreat

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