Quotations on the theme of Childhood by Charles Dickens.

Charles Dickens quotations on the theme of Childhood.

Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870) was one of the foremost writers from the Victorian era and remains a popular widely-read author today. During his lifetime he produced 15 novels, five novellas, and a large number of shorter stories and essays. He wrote from personal experiences and concerned himself with a number of contemporary social issues whilst supporting numerous charitable causes, giving assistance in time, money or personal effort. Our archive of over 600 Charles Dickens quotations are organised by both source material, i.e. the work or speech in which it originally appeared, and also grouped thematically. In this archive, we have collected quotations from Charles Dickens works on the theme of Childhood.

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Boys were in great spirits, and shouted to each other, until the broad fields were so full of merry music, that the crisp air laughed to hear it!

The Circumlocution Office2022-10-07T17:18:17+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Childhood, Children, Music, Past, Play, Weather|

A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there.

The Circumlocution Office2023-02-14T20:41:43+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Childhood, Isolation, Neglect|

Scrooge sat down upon a form, and wept to see his poor forgotten self as he used to be.

The Circumlocution Office2022-10-12T19:59:48+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Childhood, Past|

I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest licence of a child, and yet to have been man enough to know its value.

The Circumlocution Office2022-10-08T20:05:41+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Childhood, Regret|

These are but shadows of the things that have been. They have no consciousness of us.

The Circumlocution Office2022-10-07T19:56:37+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Childhood, Past|

Barely past her childhood, it required but a glance to discover that she was one of those children, born and bred in neglect and vice, who have never known what childhood is: who have never been taught to love and court a parent’s smile, or to dread a parent’s frown.

The Circumlocution Office2020-01-02T11:48:07+00:00Categories: A Visit to Newgate, Sketches by Boz|Tags: Childhood, Newgate, Poverty|

Although Oliver had been brought up by philosophers, he was not theoretically acquainted with the beautiful axiom that self-preservation is the first law of nature.

The Circumlocution Office2023-04-23T23:21:33+01:00Categories: Oliver Twist|Tags: Childhood|

I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence.

The Circumlocution Office2019-10-17T23:36:36+01:00Categories: Little Dorrit|Tags: Abandonment, Childhood|

It is a pleasant thing to see that the sun has been there; to know that the air and light are on them every day; to feel that they are children, and lead children’s lives; that if their pillows be damp, it is with the dews of Heaven, and not with tears; that the limbs of their girls are free, and that they are not crippled by distortions, imposing an unnatural and horrible penance upon their sex; that their lives are spent, from day to day, at least among the waving trees, and not in the midst of dreadful engines which make young children old before they know what childhood is, and give them the exhaustion and infirmity of age, without, like age, the privilege to die.

The Circumlocution Office2019-04-24T12:26:52+01:00Categories: Nicholas Nickleby|Tags: Childhood, Children|