“The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.”
Business
“The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.”
MoneyAll Quotes by Charles Dickens
“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.”
Time“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.”
Friendship“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
Best“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”
Good“Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.”
Home“Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.”
Good“The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.”
Age“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.”
Men“A boy's story is the best that is ever told.”
Best“Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.”
Good“Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.”
Business“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
Best“The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.”
Money“There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.”
Truth“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.”
Great“Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.”
Nature“That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.”
Change“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!”
Home“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.”
Nature