Charles Dickens quotes
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper - a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness.
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
'Bah,' said Scrooge. 'Humbug!'
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
Do you spell it with a "V" or a "W"?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.
Eccentricities of genius.
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