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Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

Charles Dickens
Lying, Deceit, Literature
Charles Dickens (2015). “Great Expectations”, p.14, Booklassic

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.

Charles Dickens
Passion, Agriculture, Literature
Charles Dickens (2016). “Dombey and Son”, p.292, Xist Publishing

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Charles Dickens
Vices, Excess, Literature
Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens”, p.835, Cosimo, Inc.

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

Charles Dickens
Papa, Literature, Potatoes
Little Dorrit bk. 2, ch. 5 (1857)

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Charles Dickens
Literature, Civility
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.9847, Delphi Classics

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Charles Dickens
Funny, People, Literature
Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.197

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Charles Dickens
Heart, Literature, Emotion
'Barnaby Rudge' (1841) ch. 22 (Mr Tappertit)

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

Charles Dickens
Fashion, Men, Literature
Charles Dickens (2015). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Volume 1 (of 2) (Illustrations)”, p.8, E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Heart, Literature
"David Copperfield". Book by Charles Dickens, 1850.

'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

Charles Dickens
Baby, Literature, World
Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.429

I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.

Charles Dickens
Literature, Made, Should
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.14179, Delphi Classics

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

Charles Dickens
People, Literature, May
Charles Dickens (1839). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.160

We are so very 'umble.

Charles Dickens
Literature
'David Copperfield' (1850) ch. 17 (Uriah Heep)

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.

Charles Dickens
Guarantees That, Two, Literature
Little Dorrit bk. 1, ch. 23 (1857)

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