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Charles Dickens Quotes

Total quotes: 59
“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
“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
“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
“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
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Tagged: humanity, Mystery, Secrets
“My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”
— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Tagged: procrastination, Waiting, Time
“There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.”
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Tagged: Memories, Ignorance, Worth, Value
“For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. If my career were of that better kind that there was any opportunity or capacity of sacrifice in it, I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you.”
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Tagged: Love, Sacrifice, Career
“I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.”
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Tagged: Failure, Success, Identity
“I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time.”
— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Tagged: Success, Punctual, determined, Concentration
“I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything.”
— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Tagged: Surprises, humanity, Expected
“There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect.”
— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Tagged: Fighting, Friendship, Expectations
“We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.”
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Perfect Words
“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. ”
— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carrol
Tagged: Laughter, Contagious, humor
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
— Charles Dickens, The Book Of Love Quotes
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Last Love
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!”
— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol(Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Past, present, Future
“For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.”
— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol(Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Christmas, Holidays, Children, Kid At Heart
“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Tagged: coward, Right, Wrong
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Tagged: Literary Love Quotes, Love, Literature
“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Tagged: Charles Dickens, Summer
“It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done before; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.”
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Last Sentences, Going Away, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Remember now and then that there is a man who would die to keep someone you love beside you”
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Giving, romance, Heartbreak
“Love her, love her, love her! If she favors you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!”
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Tagged: Love, Dating, Relationships
“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Tagged: looks, Facts, evidence, Assumptions
“I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.”
— Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Tagged: Bored, Life, Death
“And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done -- done, see you!”
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Tagged: Success, beauty, humanity
“It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.”
— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Tagged: Past, present, Memories
“There were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all.”
— Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Tagged: charity, bragging, Silence
“There's the saucepan that the gruel was in! There's the door, by which the Ghost of Jacob Marley entered! There's the corner where the Ghost of Christmas Present, sat! There's the window where I saw the wandering Spirits! It's all right, it's all true, it all happened. Ha ha ha!”
— Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
Tagged: Bah! Humbug!, Anti-Christmas, Ghost
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