Top 40 Charles Dickens Quotes

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

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.

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

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

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!

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

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.

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

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

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

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will but learn.

Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.

Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.

Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs.

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

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.

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

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

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.

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

Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

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

The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other wayin short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.

You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What I mean is that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me.

You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since-on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with.

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

I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.