English writer and social critic.
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
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. – 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
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
We need never be ashamed of our tears. – Charles Dickens
What greater gift than the love of a cat. – 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
My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. – Charles Dickens
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. – Charles Dickens
I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape. – Charles Dickens
Life is made of so many partings welded together – Charles Dickens
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart. – 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
There is a wisdom of the head, and… there is a wisdom of the heart. – Charles Dickens
Every man thinks his own geese swans. – Charles Dickens
A loving heart is the truest wisdom. – 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
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. – Charles Dickens
To a young heart everything is fun. – Charles Dickens
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. – Charles Dickens
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world. – Charles Dickens
Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade. – Charles Dickens
Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph. – Charles Dickens
There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair. – Charles Dickens
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule. – Charles Dickens
It is no small thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. – Charles Dickens
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. – Charles Dickens
Meow says the cat ,quack says the duck , Bow wow wow says the dog ! Grrrr! – Charles Dickens
Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage. – Charles Dickens
I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul. – Charles Dickens
One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth. – Charles Dickens
I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. – 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
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. – Charles Dickens
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. – Charles Dickens
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. – Charles Dickens
Toronto is full of life and motion, bustle, business and improvement. The streets are well paved and lighted with gas; the houses are large and good; the shops excellent. – Charles Dickens
The happiness he gives is quite as great, as if it cost a fortune. – Charles Dickens
It is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in. – 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
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