Quotes by
Charles Dickens |
1812-1870 , British writer
English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian era. His many volumes include such works as A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist.Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity during his lifetime than had any previous author.
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Quotations
| • | Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies. 18 |
| • | 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. 9 |
| • | Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. 8 |
| • | No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. 6 |
| • | Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! 4 |
| • | There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. 4 |
| • | It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London. 3 |
| • | That vague kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning. 2 |
| • | There is a wisdom of the Head, and … there is a wisdom of the Heart. 2 |
| • | I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence. 2 |
| • | Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together… 2 |
| • | I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. 2 |
| • | Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart. 2 |
| • | There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. 2 |
| • | We need never be ashamed of our tears. |
| • | It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. (A Tale of Two Cities) |
| • | 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. |
| • | Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him. |
| • | The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day. |
| • | “I wear the chain I forged in life,” replied the Ghost. “I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.” |
| • | A loving heart is the truest wisdom. |
| • | There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair. |
| • | Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we‘d give blood. |
| • | 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. |
| • | 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. |
| • | A multitude of people and yet a solitude. |
| • | Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes. |
| • | I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me |
