The best Quotes by Charles Dickens

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The best Quotes by Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.

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

A Christmas Carol

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Children & Childhood Christmas

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.

A Christmas Carol

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I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.

A Tale of Two Cities

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"Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change."

A Christmas Carol

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Life Fate & Destiny

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

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Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

A Tale of Two Cities

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

A Tale of Two Cities

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

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Farewell & Goodbye

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

A Christmas Carol

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Laughing & Smile

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

Oliver Twist

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Some people are nobody's enemies but their own.

Oliver Twist

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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.

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

A Christmas Carol

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Laughing & Smile

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

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Life Love Humor & Comedy

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

A Tale of Two Cities

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Mr. Lorry knew Miss Pross to be very jealous, but he also knew her by this time to be, beneath the service of her eccentricity, one of those unselfish creatures—found only among women—who will, for pure love and admiration, bind themselves willing slaves, to youth when they have lost it, to beauty that they never had, to accomplishments that they were never fortunate enough to gain, to bright hopes that never shone upon their own sombre lives.

A Tale of Two Cities

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

A Tale of Two Cities

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Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

A Tale of Two Cities

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It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.

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

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Wisdom Mind vs. Heart

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

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Heart Selflessness Nurses

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused.

A Christmas Carol

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Please, sir, I want some more.

Oliver Twist

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

Oliver Twist

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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Oliver Twist

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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.

Great Expectations

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Yes, on the ground.

auf Drängen seiner Schwägerin sich hinzulegen - letzte Worte

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Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.

Oliver Twist

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In the little world in which children have their existence, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

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Children & Childhood Justice

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

Great Expectations

Love declerations

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.

Great Expectations

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

Great Expectations

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.

Great Expectations

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

Great Expectations

Among the four old bridges that span the river, the Ponte Vecchio, that bridge which is covered with the shops of jewelers and goldsmiths, is a most enchanting feature in the scene. The space of one house, in the center, being left open, the view beyond, is shown as in a frame; and that precious glimpse of sky, and water, and rich buildings, shining so quietly among the huddled roofs and gables on the bridge, is exquisite.

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

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

No one is useless in this world, who lightens the burden of it for any one else.

I feel the truth, that trifles make the sum of life.

Christmas? Shut up!

A Christmas Carol - Von Ebenezer Scrooge

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

Great Expectations

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Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

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Life Pain Hurting Falling down

A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.

Zeus in Hercules

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