Charles Dickens Quotes

You ought to try being cruel to some people.

I can be a cruel person.

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

People can be so heartless and dirty.

Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.

Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.

Ruthlessness is not something that comes easily.

I'm used to meanness. It doesn't matter to me.

Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.

After awhile, your, your cheap talk don't even cause me pain, so let your bullets fly like rain.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall

You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed.

Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.

One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.

Through wind, and tempest, storm, and rain; The calm shall be buried inside of me; A warm stone, heavy and dry; The root, the source, a weapon against pain

Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.' 'Well,' he says, 'I would only go if there was cake.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast about, and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it.

Chin up, don’t smile, don’t cry, don’t fall, walk.

Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.

If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.

Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.