A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
– Charles Dickens
Have a heart that never hardens; a temper that never tires; a touch that never hurts.
– Charles Dickens
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
– Charles Dickens
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
– 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
Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his
wandering.
– Charles Dickens
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
– Charles Dickens
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good
looks.
– Charles Dickens
A woman’s appetite is twice that of a man’s; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence,
eight times.
– Charles Dickens
It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.
– Charles Dickens
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result
misery.
– Charles Dickens
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
This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
– Charles Dickens
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.
– Charles Dickens
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
– Charles Dickens
Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy
in every kind of effort.
– Charles Dickens
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
What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the
world!
– 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
God knows we’ve never ashamed of our tears, because they are the rain that cleanses the
blinding dust of earth overlying our hard hearts.
– Charles Dickens
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly,
it bodes no good to other people.
– Charles Dickens
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night,
as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we
can scarcely mark their progress.
– Charles Dickens
Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of
the people we most despise.
– Charles Dickens
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
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the
world.
– Charles Dickens
With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
– Charles Dickens
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
– Charles Dickens
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.
– Charles Dickens
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
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
– Charles Dickens
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
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
– 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
There is a wisdom of the head and there is a wisdom of the heart.
– Charles Dickens
We need never be ashamed of our tears.
– Charles Dickens
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
– Charles Dickens
Credit is a system whereby a person who can’t pay gets another person who can’t pay to
guarantee that he can pay.
– Charles Dickens
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much
credit in that.
– Charles Dickens
Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.
– Charles Dickens
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
– Charles Dickens
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
– Charles Dickens
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
– Charles Dickens
A boy’s story is the best that is ever told.
– 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
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
– Charles Dickens
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of
comfort.
– Charles Dickens
My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of
time, collar him.
– Charles Dickens
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
– Charles Dickens
I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
– Charles Dickens
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.
– Charles Dickens
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess.
– Charles Dickens
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past
misfortunes, of which all men have some.
– Charles Dickens
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
– Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
– Charles Dickens
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
– Charles Dickens
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 object at a time.
– Charles Dickens
Money and goods are certainly the best of references.
– 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
Trifles make the sum of life.
– Charles Dickens
I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often
and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace,
against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I
love her nonetheless because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if
I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.
– Charles Dickens
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
– Charles Dickens
“Did you ever taste beer?” “I had a sip of it once,” said the small servant. “Here’s a state of
things!” cried Mr Swiveller, raising his eyes to the ceiling. “She never tasted it – it can’t be
tasted in a sip!”
– Charles Dickens
I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so
many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the
real meaning of the word, without coming here.
– Charles Dickens
Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
– Charles Dickens
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
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
– Charles Dickens
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.
– Charles Dickens
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who
contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the
world is a finer one than the last.
– 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
We forge the chains we wear in life.
– Charles Dickens
The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself.
– Charles Dickens
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
– Charles Dickens
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
– Charles Dickens