Charles Dickens Quotes

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Charles Dickens

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870

Topics

SometimesVicesOnlyVirtuesExcess

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

Mercedes Ruehl

UnderstandCondemnTendency

I need to have a reason why I'm doing something. Otherwise I'm lost.

Steven Rodney McQueen

DoingLostWhyNeedReason

It's shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I haven't got a car yet.

Tom Felton

CarMeCinemaSayAwayGot

I had never attended a trial until my daughter's murder trial. What I witnessed in that courtroom enraged and redirected me.

Dominick Dunne

DaughterMeNeverCourtroomTrial

I want people to love me, but it's not going to hurt me if they don't.

Drew Barrymore

LovePeopleMeHurtLove MeWant

Divorce was miserable, as it always is, and we divorce for the same reasons we marry.

Donald Hall

DivorceMiserableSameAlwaysMarry

I spent more time in America, but I developed a very English sense of humour. I clicked into it deeply with Peter Sellers, who is still probably my favourite comedian.

Christopher Guest

TimeAmericaMoreHumourEnglish

I always take a shower now before I go to bed. It's so important just to cleanse everything off.

Antoni Porowski

BedGoImportantNowEverythingOff

I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.

William Shatner

BetterAlwaysOpenGotIdeaHappens

Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can't get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head.

Pico Iyer

WisdomChallengesQuestionsDarkWay

Singing and playing have always gone hand-in-hand with me. I love 'em both equally.

Phil Anselmo

LoveMeSingingAlwaysGonePlaying

The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.

Peter Maxwell Davies

EducationArtProfitArtsSomething

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