3 Charles Dickens Quotes on Childhood

Charles Dickens quotes on childhood

45. Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

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

125. In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.