Charles 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
I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt.
—Charles Dickens
Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.
—Charles Dickens
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
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
—Charles Dickens
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
Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
—Charles Dickens
Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.
—Charles Dickens
You have been the last dream of my soul.
—Charles Dickens
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
—Charles Dickens
There is a wisdom of the head, and… there is a wisdom of the heart.
—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
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
—Charles Dickens
I stole her heart away and put ice in its place.
—Charles Dickens
For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
—Charles Dickens
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
—Charles Dickens
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
—Charles Dickens
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
—Charles Dickens
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
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
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.
—Charles Dickens