Charles Dickens Quotes

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens

Love, Wisdom, Heart

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Charles Dickens

Christmas, Home, Happy

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
Charles Dickens

Communication, True, Someone

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

Christmas, Heart, Try

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

Heart, Hurts, Touch

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
Charles Dickens

Self, Others, Wasted

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens

Wisdom, Heart, Head

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens

Men, Past, Blessings

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

Human, Wonderful, Fact

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

Before, After, Between

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens

Trust, Men, Bad

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

Nature, Heart, Close

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

Sun, Light, Wind

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
Charles Dickens

Life, Great, Heart

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Charles Dickens

Pain, Nothing, Joy

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Charles Dickens

Good, Bad, Lawyers

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
Charles Dickens

Strength, Dark, Earth

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.
Charles Dickens

Live, Passion, China

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
Charles Dickens

Else, Anyone, Useless

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
Charles Dickens

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 subject at a time.
Charles Dickens

Time, Done, Order

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
Charles Dickens

Friendship, Wine, Pass

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
Charles Dickens

Person, Another, System

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
Charles Dickens

Down, Eyes, Away

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens

Great, Men, Truth

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Biography

Nationality: English

Born: February 7, 1812

Died: June 9, 1870

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