Welcome to our curated selection of Charles Dickens quotes that provide valuable insights into the human nature to inspire on your journey of life.
Charles Dickens was a 19th century English novelist and social critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and his works have captivated readers for generations.
His novels, which include “Oliver Twist,” “A Tale of Two Cities,” and “Great Expectations.” They are celebrated for their richly drawn characters, vivid descriptions of Victorian life, and powerful social commentary.
In addition to his literary achievements, Dickens also left behind a legacy of quotes that continue to inspire with us. From his musings on love and loss to his insights on the human condition, Charles Dickens quotes offer timeless wisdom and valuable lessons for us to embrace the journey of life.
So, dive into the world of Charles Dickens quotes. Enjoy our lovable list and discover how his words can provide guidance and inspiration in your own life.
Inspirational Charles Dickens quotes
Uncover the hidden truths of the world with thought–provoking and inspiring Charles Dickens quotes.
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
Charles Dickens
There were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all.
Charles Dickens
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.
Charles Dickens
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
Charles Dickens
A multitude of people and yet a solitude.
Charles Dickens
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
Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms.
Charles Dickens
Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.
Charles Dickens
Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.
Charles Dickens
No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.
Charles Dickens
Famous Charles Dickens quotes
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.
Charles Dickens
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.
Charles Dickens
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.
Charles Dickens
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
Charles Dickens
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
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.
Charles Dickens
A very little key will open a very heavy door.
Charles Dickens
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens
I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.
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
Motivational Charles Dickens quotes
Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.
Charles Dickens
Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.
Charles Dickens
The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.
Charles Dickens
Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.
Charles Dickens
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
Charles Dickens
My advice is, never do to–morrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!
Charles Dickens
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.
Charles Dickens
I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.
Charles Dickens
The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
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
Charles Dickens quotes on happiness
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
Charles Dickens
We forge the chains we wear in life.
Charles Dickens
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
Charles Dickens
In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.
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
To a young heart everything is fun.
Charles Dickens
I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence.
Charles Dickens
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Charles Dickens
My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.
Charles Dickens
Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It’s so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quotes on life
Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
Charles Dickens
The sun,–the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man–burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly–coloured glass and paper–mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.
Charles Dickens
Trifles make the sum of life.
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
There are some upon this earth of yours who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill–will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.
Charles Dickens
In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is–as the light called human life is–at its coming and its going.
Charles Dickens
And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done– done, see you!– under that sky there, every day.
Charles Dickens
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
Charles Dickens
Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.
Charles Dickens
Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.
Charles Dickens
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quotes on love
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
Charles Dickens
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
Charles Dickens
And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.
Charles Dickens
There is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you.
Charles Dickens
True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything.
Charles Dickens
Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.
Charles Dickens
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.
Charles Dickens
You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.
Charles Dickens
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.
Charles Dickens
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quotes on love confession
You are part of my existence, part of myself.
Charles Dickens
For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything.
Charles Dickens
You cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil.
Charles Dickens
Try to hold me in your mind, at some quiet times, as ardent and sincere in this one thing.
Charles Dickens
The time will come, the time will not be long in coming, when new ties will be formed about you–ties that will bind you yet more tenderly and strongly to the home you so adorn–the dearest ties that will ever grace and gladden you.
Charles Dickens
You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with.
Charles Dickens
O Miss Manette, when the little picture of a happy father’s face looks up in yours, when you see your own bright beauty springing up anew at your feet, think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you!
Charles Dickens
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.
Charles Dickens
I associate you only with the good, and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you must have done me far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
Charles Dickens
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.
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Funny Charles Dickens quotes
I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can’t beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.
Charles Dickens
You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!
Charles Dickens
Great men are seldom over–scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
Charles Dickens
The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.
Charles Dickens
All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast–time to–morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.
Charles Dickens
Think! I’ve got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.
Charles Dickens
It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin’s system not to encourage a child’s mind to develop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster.
Charles Dickens
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Charles Dickens
Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.
Charles Dickens
Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; – the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quotes on mind
Explore the wisdom of Charles Dickens quotes on mind and human condition.
Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.
Charles Dickens
New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.
Charles Dickens
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill–conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Charles Dickens
There is a wisdom of the head, and… there is a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens
The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling–irons. When you see that every word you utter us taken in, and weighed, and measured by your listener, you cannot free yourself from the influence of his presence.
Charles Dickens
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
Charles Dickens
You are compelled to have in your thoughts not only the words you utter, but the man to whom they are spoken.
Charles Dickens
We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.
Charles Dickens
Some people are nobody’s enemies but their own.
Charles Dickens
He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten.
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens quotes on perseverance
Find guidance and inspiration in Charles Dickens quotes on perseverance and resilience!
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
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 object at a time.
Charles Dickens
We forge the chains we wear in life.
Charles Dickens
I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything.
Charles Dickens
This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.
Charles Dickens
I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss.
Charles Dickens
We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.
Charles Dickens
I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but 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 object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed.
Charles Dickens
One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.
Charles Dickens
I am what you designed me to be. I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt.
Charles Dickens
Final thoughts
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