Charles Dickens Quotes

Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse

Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

The more men value money the less they value virtue.

Never - no, not for one moment - believe that any human being, with sense in his skull, will love or respect you on account of your fine or costly clothes.

You can be dressed the best and have a wicked heart.

It's sad to me that the main stage of history is a story of how we became this visually obsessed, extremely narcissistic, extremely concerned about image, culture. At least in the West.

. . . She was obsessed with clothes and status, how she never gave a thought to being responsible for her own actions, or even what she might do for anyone else-making her the ultimate example of all that was wrong and misguided about young women today.

Pretty is a self-serving situation in which it's all about you. People who are pretty are superficial, but they are not beautiful. Beauty requires more depth.

Selfishness is the only real atheism.

Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.

People who are interested in money are really uninteresting people. They look like Donald Trump.

It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.

Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!

I'm not that shallow, asshole. I don't need money. It's way more important for them to be good-looking.

Investing a lot of time and money in external beauty and caring little about internal beauty.

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy, jealousy, all that is malignant in human character is nourished by the system. Possession, money, property--on such corrupt standards as these do you people measure happiness and success.

The howl of self-interest is loud ... but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.

I like when money makes a difference but don't make you different

By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if me my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.

Many media commercials encourage us to believe that if we buy a certain product, we can be physically appealing, or popular, or successful. According to the commercial message, it may be easy to make friends and influence people if we simply do what we're told to do. It would be wonderful if that were true, but unfortunately life does not seem to work that way. What is inside of us can be much more important and influential than what is outside.