Charles Dickens quotes Born: 02/07/1812 Died: 06/09/1870 Country: united_kingdom

• A loving heart is the truest wisdom. (Charles Dickens) [wisdom]
• Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. (Charles Dickens)
• It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. (Charles Dickens) [eyes]
• The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. (Charles Dickens) [difference/construction/creation/thing]
• 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. (Charles Dickens) [nature]
• We forge the chains we wear in life. (Charles Dickens) [life]
• 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) [order/time]
• 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. (Charles Dickens) [age/wisdom/age/light]
• There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart. (Charles Dickens) [wisdom/wisdom]
• The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. (Charles Dickens) [pain/parting/joy/meeting]
• There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. (Charles Dickens) [books]
• Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. (Charles Dickens) [life]
• Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are fatuous preservers of youthful looks. (Charles Dickens)
• 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) [life]
• Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. (Charles Dickens) [nature/time/morning/night]
• . . .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. (Charles Dickens) [suffering]
• I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. (Charles Dickens)
• Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. (Charles Dickens) [charity/housing/]
• He would make a lovely corpse. (Charles Dickens)
• Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks. (Charles Dickens)
• There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. (Charles Dickens) [books]
• 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) [order/time]
• 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) [system]
• Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. (Charles Dickens) [wine]
• There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated. (Charles Dickens) [human]
• The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. (Charles Dickens) [difference/construction/creation/thing]
• 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) [willpower/face]
• I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here. (Charles Dickens) [form]
• I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys. (Charles Dickens) [difference]
• Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. (Charles Dickens) [men]
• The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. (Charles Dickens) [men]

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