Charles Dickens

Charles DickensCharles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world’s best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.

Charles Dickens Quotes

My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.

—Charles Dickens

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

—Charles Dickens

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

—Charles Dickens

Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

—Charles Dickens

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

—Charles Dickens

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

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

—Charles Dickens

I will honour 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

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

—Charles Dickens

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours 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

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

—Charles Dickens

What greater gift than the love of a cat.

—Charles Dickens

I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.

—Charles Dickens

And yet 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

I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.

—Charles Dickens

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

—Charles Dickens

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

—Charles Dickens

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

—Charles Dickens

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.

—Charles Dickens

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

—Charles Dickens

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

—Charles Dickens

I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.

—Charles Dickens

No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused.

—Charles Dickens

Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.

—Charles Dickens

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours 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

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

—Charles Dickens

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.

—Charles Dickens

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

—Charles Dickens

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

—Charles Dickens

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

—Charles Dickens