Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world’s best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. This Charles Dickens Quotes on life, love will motivate you.
Best Charles Dickens Quotes
- “The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “A very little key will open a very heavy door.” ~ 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
- “The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self-confidence and good humor.” ~ 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
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“Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush–sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes… It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their ‘betters’ were derelict.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “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.” ~ Charles Dickens Quotes
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“Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.”
- “We forge the chains we wear in life.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” ~ 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
- “Reflect upon your present blessings” ~ Charles Dickens
- “There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.” ~ Charles Dickens
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“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. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!” ~ Charles Dickens
- “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!” ~ Charles Dickens
- “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!” ~ Charles Dickens
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“‘Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.”
- “One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of the earth.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “Have you ever had the sensation of looking at someone for the first time and ever so quickly the past and future seem to fuse? Does that not mean something? That we felt so much, so deeply, before even speaking?” ~ Charles Dickens
- “Family not only needs to consist of merely those whom we share blood but also for those whom we’d give blood.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn’t paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows – they leap in like sugary ninjas” ~ Charles Dickens
- “Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” ~ Charles Dickens
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“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn’t happen to be good for my work today, it’s good for some other man’s today… and will come around for me tomorrow.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “I wear the chain I forged in life…I made it link by link and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “What greater gift than the love of a cat.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “The sun himself is weak when he first rises and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.” ~ Charles Dickens
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“The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “Every failure teaches a man something if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.” ~ Charles Dickens
