Inspiring Quotes by Charles Dickens - Page 2

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"Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire"

"Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine"

"He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two"

"In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice"

"Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly"

"Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs"

"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"

"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"

"Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!"

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