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Quotes by Charles Dickens

6 quotes by Charles Dickens (died 1870), taken from 4 works. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.

Works quoted: A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, David Copperfield and Our Mutual Friend.

A Christmas Carol

  1. “It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.”

  2. “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”

  3. “He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world.”

Great Expectations

  1. “I have been bent and broken, but--I hope--into a better shape.”

David Copperfield

  1. “Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well.”

Our Mutual Friend

  1. ““No one is useless in this world,” retorted the Secretary, “who lightens the burden of it for any one else.””

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