Here are a few quotes from the prolific writing career of 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
“An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.”
Charles Dickens
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness.”
Charles Dickens
“Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on the earth in the night season, and melt away with the first beam of the sun which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.”
Charles Dickens
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
Charles Dickens
“I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that–as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.”
Charles Dickens
“I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.”
Charles Dickens
“It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.”
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
“Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.”
Charles Dickens
“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
“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
“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
Charles Dickens
“There were times when he could not read the face he had studied so long, and when this lonely girl was a greater mystery to him than any women of the world…”
Charles Dickens
“We forge the chains we wear in life.”
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
“When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.”
Charles Dickens