Quotes by Charles Dickens

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

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!
– Charles Dickens

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
– Charles Dickens

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
– Charles Dickens

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
– 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. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle
– Charles Dickens

A very little key will open a very heavy door.
– Charles Dickens

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything
– Charles Dickens

We need never be ashamed of our tears.
– Charles Dickens

What greater gift than the love of a cat.
– Charles Dickens

Life is made of so many partings welded together
– Charles Dickens

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
– Charles Dickens

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
– 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

I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.
– Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
– Charles Dickens

Every man thinks his own geese swans.
– Charles Dickens

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

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.
– Charles Dickens

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.
– Charles Dickens

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.
– Charles Dickens

To a young heart everything is fun.
– Charles Dickens

There is a wisdom of the head, and… there is a wisdom of the heart.
– Charles Dickens

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
– Charles Dickens

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

Meow says the cat ,quack says the duck , Bow wow wow says the dog !
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– Charles Dickens

It is no small thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.
– Charles Dickens

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.
– Charles Dickens

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

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
– Charles Dickens