Charles Dickens Quotes

Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.

An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim that it is better to walk than to run, and better to stand than to walk, and better to sit than to stand, and better to lie than to sit. He hugs himself into the notion, that God calls him to be quiet.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses.

I'm incredibly lazy!

I'm just generally lazy.

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up.

The sluggard is a living insensible.

I do not care for anything. I do not care to ride, for the exercise is too violent. I do not care to walk, walking is too strenuous. I do not care to lie down, for I should either have to remain lying, and I do not care to do that, or I should have to get up again, and I do not care to do that either. Summa summarum: I do not care at all.

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what.

Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.

Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.

When laziness attacks a woman, it always avoids her tongue.

I'm quite lazy.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

I think it's a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger.

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.

I am lazy.

I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.

I know how deeply slothful I am.

I'm a lazy, lazy girl.

Human nature is above all things lazy.