I have been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in the middle of a great round table, and towered high above their heads. It was brilliantly lighted by a multitude of little tapers; and everywhere sparkled and glittered with bright objects. ~ A Christmas Tree
Children Quotes
We hope you enjoy this collection of quotes about children written by Charles Dickens.
My Meaning Is
"My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades." ~ Martin Chuzzlewit
But what was a girl
But what was a girl to Dombey and Son! In the capital of the House’s name and dignity, such a child was merely a piece of base coin that couldn’t be invested–a bad Boy–nothing more. ~ Dombey and Son
Oliver’s pillow was smoothed by
Oliver’s pillow was smoothed by gentle hands that night; and loveliness and virtue watched him as he slept. ~ Oliver Twist
Treachery don’t come natural to
“Treachery don’t come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,–they do, thank God!” ~ Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy
The boy stirred, and smiled
The boy stirred, and smiled in his sleep, as though these marks of pity and compassion had awakened some pleasant dream of a love and affection he had never known. Thus, a strain of gentle music, or the rippling of water in a silent place, or the odour of a flower, or the mention of a familiar word, will sometimes call up sudden dim remembrances of scenes that never were, in this life; which vanish like a breath; which some brief memory of a happier existence, long gone by, would seem to have awakened; which no voluntary exertion of the mind can ever recall. ~ Oliver Twist
“But even if he has
“But even if he has been wicked,” pursued Rose, “think how young he is; think that he may never have known a mother’s love, or the comfort of a home; that ill-usage and blows, or the want of bread, may have driven him to herd with men who have forced him to guilt. Aunt, dear aunt, for mercy’s sake, think of this, before you let them drag this sick child to a prison, which in any case must be the grave of all his chances of amendment.” ~ Oliver Twist
The noise in this room
The noise in this room was perfectly tumultuous, for there were more children there, than Scrooge in his agitated state of mind could count; and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves like one, but every child was conducting itself like forty. ~ A Christmas Carol
Wal’r, my dear lad said
“Wal’r, my dear lad,” said the Captain, ‘farewell! Wal’r my child, my boy, and man, I loved you! He warn’t my flesh and blood,” said the Captain, looking at the fire – “I ain’t got none – but something of what a father feels when he loses a son, I feel in ~ Dombey and Son
If any sunbeam stole into
If any sunbeam stole into the room to light the children at their play, it never reached his face. He looked on so fixedly and coldly, that the warm light vanished even from the laughing eyes of little Florence, when, at last, they happened to meet his. ~ Dombey and Son
