Charles Dickens Quotes

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
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

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

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
Charles Dickens

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens

There might be some credit in being jolly.
Charles Dickens

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

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

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
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 subject at a time.
Charles Dickens

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

Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.
Charles Dickens

We need never be ashamed of our tears.
Charles Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Charles Dickens

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
Charles Dickens

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

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
Charles Dickens

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens

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

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

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

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