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Charles Dickens Quotes

Total quotes: 103
“There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.”
— Charles Dickens, Hard Times
Tagged: Wisdom, Head, heart
“The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.”
— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Tagged: Life, Goals, motivation, Thinking
“I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.”
— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Tagged: Hope, Love, Truth, Beautiful Quotes
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of it for anyone else.”
— Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
Tagged: Friendship, Courage, burdens, Helping Others, help, usefuleness, Self Worth
“Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
— Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
Tagged: Blessings, thankful, Misfortunes, Optimism
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: one perfect sentence, Love, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.”
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Tagged: Literature Quotes, Lit quotes, Literature
“You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read.”
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations(Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Love, Memories, Existence, influence, admiration
“Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.”
— Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Tagged: Nature, beauty
“Never be mean in anything. Never be false. Never be cruel.”
— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Tagged: Goodness, Truth, Genuine
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol(Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Christmas, Holidays, Honor
“The Pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
— Charles Dickens, Great Toasts: From Births to Weddings to Retirement Parites...and Everything in Between
Tagged: Relationships, Long Distance, Love
“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
— Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
Tagged: Books, Reading, Bookworm
“If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, Eugenics
“Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.”
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Tagged: Death, Life, Death and Life, Oppression, Consequences, human actions
“Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, Poverty, merry
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.”
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Tagged: Crying, Tears, Weeping, being ashamed, Heaven, Shame, softening hearts, heartfelt, gentleness, Inspirational
“There's another fellow, my clerk, with fifteen shillings a week, and a wife and family, talking about a merry Christmas. I'll retire to Bedlam.”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, bedlam
“I don't know what day of the month it is! I don't know how long I've been among the Spirits. I don't know anything. I'm quite a baby. Never mind. I don't care. I'd rather be a baby. Hallo! Whoop! Hallo here!”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, spirits
“You are about to show me shadows of the things that have not happened, but will happen in the time before us. Is that so, Spirit?”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, Ghosts, Future, Past
“Spirit! Hear me! I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I must have been but for this intercourse. Why show me this, if I am past all hope?”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, Ghosts, Beyond All Hope
“It's not my business. It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, gentlemen!”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, Business, Meddling
“Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead. But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me!”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, perseverance, life path
“Now, I'll tell you what, my friend. I am not going to stand this sort of thing any longer. And therefore I am about to raise your salary!”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, Ghosts, Raise, salary
“Forgive me if I am not justified in what I ask, but I see something strange, and not belonging to yourself, protruding from your skirts. Is it a foot or a claw?”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, strange, Foot, claw
“I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.”
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Tagged: Weakness, Fire, motivation
“Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.”
— Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
Tagged: Happiness, Expectations, enjoy the moment
“Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.”
— Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Tagged: Constant, Love, Effort
“Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason.”
— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Tagged: Body, Mind, Mental Illness, Bodily Defect
“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.”
— Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Tagged: Freedom, Butterflies, humanity
“It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.”
— Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Giving, romance, Heartbreak
“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.”
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Broken Heart, Pain, Heartbreak
“The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become.”
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Unlocking Your Potential
“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”
— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Tagged: first lines of books
“Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences, for all good.”
— Charles Dickens, The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain(Christmas Books series Book 5)
Tagged: Christmas
“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”
— Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
Tagged: Books, Reading, Illiterate
“Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.”
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Tagged: lost, Recovery, broken, Confused
“I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.”
— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Tagged: actions, Thoughts, Reality
“My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her.”
— Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
Tagged: Love, Women, Dating, Relationships
“'I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer,' said Mrs. Maylie; 'I know that the devotion and affection of her nature require no ordinary return, but one that shall be deep and lasting.'”
— Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
Tagged: Love, Dating, Relationships, affection, Devotion
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