The Best Charles Dickens quotes

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself. — Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope. — Charles Dickens

Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life. — Charles Dickens

In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley. — Charles Dickens

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life. — Charles Dickens

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

My life is one demd horrid grind. — Charles Dickens

Money can’t buy a happy life, or a peaceful death. — Charles Dickens

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. — Charles Dickens

Trifles make the sum of life. — Charles Dickens

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. — Charles Dickens

Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people we most despise. — Charles Dickens

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation. — Charles Dickens

She writhes under her life. A woman more angry, passionate, reckless, and revengeful never lived. — Charles Dickens

These books were a way of escaping from the unhappiness of my life. — Charles Dickens

I wear the chains I forged in life. — Charles Dickens

We forge the chains we wear in life. — Charles Dickens

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. — Charles Dickens

A new heart for a New Year, always! — Charles Dickens

His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him. — Charles Dickens

Are tears the dewdrops of the heart? — Charles Dickens

To a young heart everything is fun. — Charles Dickens

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

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

A loving heArt is the truest wisdom. — Charles Dickens

I must do something or I shall wear my heart away… — Charles Dickens

It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded. — Charles Dickens

I stole her heart away and put ice in its place. — Charles Dickens

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated. — Charles Dickens

And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment. — Charles Dickens

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. — Charles Dickens

Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you. — 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

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart. — Charles Dickens

Love is in all things a most wonderful teacher. — Charles Dickens

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

I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her. — Charles Dickens

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman. — Charles Dickens

Lovers had loved before, and lovers would love again; but no lover had ever loved, might, could, would, or should ever love, as I loved Dora. — 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

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

Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries. — Charles Dickens

I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world. — Charles Dickens

In love of home, the love of country has its rise. — Charles Dickens

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

Treachery don’t come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,–they do, thank God! — Charles Dickens

For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent’s love. — 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

Thus two people who cannot afford to play cards for money, sometimes sit down to a quiet game for love. — Charles Dickens

Never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. — Charles Dickens

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven’s pleasure. — Charles Dickens

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him. — Charles Dickens

My advice is, never do to–morrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him! — Charles Dickens

Scattered wits take a long time in picking up. — Charles Dickens

Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking. — Charles Dickens

Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade. — Charles Dickens

It’s an old habit of mine, Wal’r,’ said the Captain, ‘any time these fifty year. When you see Ned Cuttle bite his nails, Wal’r, then you may know that Ned Cuttle’s aground. — Charles Dickens

When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others. — Charles Dickens

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule. — Charles Dickens

Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide. — Charles Dickens

Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it. — Charles Dickens

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth. — Charles Dickens

When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained–not shown–yet always ready. — Charles Dickens

We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money. — Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own. — Charles Dickens

There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas. — Charles Dickens

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself. — Charles Dickens

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. — Charles Dickens

It always is Christmas Eve, in a ghost story. — Jerome K. Jerome

It was always said of him scrooge that he knew how to keep christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. may that be truly said of us, and all of us — Charles Dickens

A merry christmas, uncle god save you’ cried a cheerful voice. ‘bah’ said scrooge. ‘humbug’ — Charles Dickens

Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man’s pockets. — Charles Dickens

Come in,––come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before! — Charles Dickens

I have always thought of Christmas time… as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. — Charles Dickens

They don’t mind it: its a reg’lar holiday to them–all porter and skittles. — Charles Dickens

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds. — Charles Dickens

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — Charles Dickens

How slight a thing will disturb the equanimity of our frail minds! — Charles Dickens

I never had one hour’s happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four–and–twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death. — Charles Dickens

As to sleep, you know, I never sleep now. I might be a Watchman, except that I don’t get any pay, and he’s got nothing on his mind. — Charles Dickens

They’ll not blame me. They’ll not object to me. They’ll not mind what I do, if it’s wrong. I’m only Mr. Dick. — Charles Dickens

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill–conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. — Charles Dickens

You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir! — Charles Dickens

If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig. — Charles Dickens

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

Mind and matter,’ said the lady in the wig, ‘glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.’ — Charles Dickens

I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven! — 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

If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face. — Charles Dickens

It’s always something, to know you’ve done the most you could. But, don’t leave off hoping, or it’s of no use doing anything. Hope, hope to the last! — Charles Dickens

I dare say our is likely to be a rather long engagement, but our motto is ‘Wait and hope!’ We always say that. ‘Wait and hope!’ we always say. — Charles Dickens

I hope I know my own unworthiness, and that I hate and despise myself and all my fellow–creatures as every practicable Christian should. — Charles Dickens

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. — Charles Dickens

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. — Charles Dickens

It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets. — Charles Dickens

Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death–shock. — Charles Dickens

She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good. — Charles Dickens

Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain’t so easy for ’em to see out of a needle’s eye. — Charles Dickens

With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. — Charles Dickens

The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it. — Charles Dickens

Walter,’ she said, looking full upon him with her affectionate eyes, ‘like you, I hope for better things. I will pray for them, and believe that they will arrive. — Charles Dickens

S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. — Charles Dickens

Upon which, every man looked at his neighbour, and then all cast down their eyes and sat silent. Except one man, who got up and went out. — Charles Dickens

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two. — Charles Dickens

Bless the bright eyes of your sex! They never see, whether for good or bad, more than one side of any question; and that is always, the one which first presents itself to them. — Charles Dickens

I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold. — Charles Dickens

I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man’s opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music. — Charles Dickens