Charles Dickens Quotes

You can't be all bad all the time.

I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me.

Good and great are seldom in the same man.

Nobody is all good or all bad.

No human being in history was all good or all bad, or all black or all white.

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

You got good and bad people everywhere.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

Men are not altogether bad or altogether good.

Man is a being of a mixed nature; and, as there is no integrity without its flaws, so is there no man so knavish but that in some things he may be trusted.

I'm not sure anything makes you an outright good person or bad person - that we're all capable of doing good or bad things. And if you want to know how much good you can do, and how much hurt you can do, just ask somebody you love.

Flaws are really interesting.

I don't love to generalize, because I think every person has bad and good in them.

This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.

Nobody's perfect... Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him.

In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great.

If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast.

Not every great man is a grand human being.

Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.