The following is a list of almost 300 different themes from our collection of over 650 Charles Dickens quotations. The number represents the number of quotations related to that theme.
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A
- Abandonment (7)
- Ability (1)
- Abuse (3)
- Accidents (1)
- Accomodation (1)
- Addiction (2)
- Advice (1)
- Age (5)
- Alcohol (19)
- Amusements (4)
- Anger (3)
- Animals (3)
- Animosity (3)
- Anonymity (2)
- Appearance (9)
- Appearance (Person) (89)
- Appearance (Places) (26)
- Appearances (3)
- Architecture (1)
- Atmosphere (1)
- Attitude (1)
- Attraction (2)
B
- Babies (1)
- Banking (1)
- Beauty (1)
- Begging (1)
- Behaviour (7)
- Bible (1)
- Birmingham (2)
- Boats (1)
- Boisterous (1)
- Books (3)
- Breathing (1)
- Bureauracy (24)
- Business (8)
C
- Capital Punishment (1)
- Celebration (1)
- Celebrity (1)
- Character (1)
- Charity (13)
- Chase (1)
- Chelmsford (1)
- Child Abuse (3)
- Childhood (15)
- Children (17)
- Christmas (17)
- Church Bells (3)
- Churches (2)
- Circumlocution Office (9)
- Class (16)
- Clothes (1)
- Coketown (11)
- Cold (2)
- Comfort (1)
- Communication (1)
- Compassion (1)
- Confused (3)
- Confusion (2)
- Consequences (1)
- Contempt (2)
- Conversation (1)
- Copyright (4)
- Corruption (1)
- Crime (15)
- Crowds (5)
- Curiosity (5)
D
- Dancing (2)
- Darkness (1)
- Death (29)
- Debt (4)
- Deception (2)
- Dedication (1)
- Desolation (1)
- Destiny (7)
- Devil (1)
- Dignity (2)
- Dirt (1)
- Disability (1)
- Disagreement (1)
- Discussion (1)
- Disease (1)
- Dispirited (1)
- Divorce (1)
- Dogs (2)
- Domestic Violence (11)
- Drink (3)
E
- Eagle Tavern (2)
- Eating (1)
- Eccentric (1)
- Education (12)
- Election (3)
- Elephants (2)
- Emotions (52)
- Endurance (1)
- Environment (15)
- Execution (9)
- Exeter Hall (1)
- Expectation (1)
- Expression (1)
- Eyes (4)
G
- Generosity (3)
- Ghosts (2)
- Gifts (1)
- Gin (2)
- Gin Palaces (7)
- Gold (1)
- Good (2)
- Gossip (2)
- Government (4)
- Gratitude (1)
- Great Ormond Street Hospital (1)
- Greed (14)
- Greenwich Fair (4)
- Grief (1)
- Group (1)
- Guilt (10)
H
I
- Illiteracy (2)
- Imagination (1)
- Immoral (1)
- Importance (1)
- Independence (1)
- Industrial Revolution (8)
- Industry (6)
- Inequality (5)
- Injustice (2)
- Insanity (1)
- Intelligence (4)
- Isolation (6)
K
- Kindness (3)
L
N
- Nature (2)
- Neglect (2)
- Neighbours (1)
- Nepotism (1)
- Nerves (4)
- Nervousness (4)
- Newgate (5)
- News (1)
- Night (2)
- Noise (4)
P
- Paris (1)
- Parliament (7)
- Past (3)
- Pauper Farming (3)
- People (1)
- Philanthropy (6)
- Philosophy (2)
- Pity (2)
- Plague (1)
- Play (1)
- Poetry (3)
- Police (2)
- Politics (4)
- Pollution (14)
- Population (1)
- Poverty (33)
- Power (3)
- Predictions (1)
- Pride (1)
- Prison (8)
- Privacy (1)
- Prostitution (2)
- Punishment (2)
- Pursuit (1)
Q
- Quarantine (2)
R
- Railways (2)
- Reading (1)
- Redemption (9)
- Red Tape (5)
- Regret (13)
- Religion (5)
- Repression (2)
- Respect (1)
- Responsibility (1)
- River Thames (3)
- Rumours (2)
S
- Sacrifice (1)
- Sadness (2)
- Sanitation (5)
- Sanity (1)
- School (3)
- Secrets (5)
- Self-doubt (3)
- Shakespeare (4)
- Shame (1)
- Singing (1)
- Skepticism (2)
- Skin (1)
- Slums (2)
- Smell (3)
- Smithfield (2)
- Society (1)
- Solitary (1)
- Solitude (5)
- Sound (1)
- Speaking (6)
- Speeches (4)
- Staring (1)
- Starvation (5)
- Steam Engines (2)
- Strength (2)
- Success (1)
- Sunday (3)
- Supernatural (1)
- Suspicion (1)
- Sympathy (1)
T
U
- Uncertainty (1)
- Utilitarianism (5)
V
- Violence (3)
- Virtues (2)
- Virtue signalling (2)
- Voice (2)
- Voting (2)