Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.

More Quotes by Charles Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

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 men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.