Charles Dickens Quotes
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
Charles Dickens
(Nicholas Nickleby, 1838-1839)
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
Trifles make the sum of life.
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
We forge the chains we wear in life.
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
In love of home, the love of country has its rise.
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens
(Our Mutual Friend, 1864-1865)
A man must take the fat with the lean.
You have been the last dream of my soul.
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
We need never be ashamed of our tears.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Charles Dickens
(A Tale of Two Cities, 1859)
When found, make a note of.
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.
Grief never mended no broken bones.
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
