Quotes by Charles Dickens

About Charles Dickens:

Charles John Huffam Dickens is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
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Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Charles Dickens

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

Charles Dickens

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Charles Dickens

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Charles Dickens

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Charles Dickens

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Charles Dickens

'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

Charles Dickens

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

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

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

Charles Dickens

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Charles Dickens

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Charles Dickens

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

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

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

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

He would make a lovely corpse.

Charles Dickens

'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.

Charles Dickens

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Charles Dickens

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

Charles Dickens

Author Bio

  • NameCharles Dickens
  • DescriptionEnglish writer and social critic
  • AliasesCharles John Huffam Dickens
  • BornFebruary 7, 1812
  • DiedJune 9, 1870
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Journalist; Social Critic
  • WorksThe Pickwick Papers; Oliver Twist; A Christmas Carol; David Copperfield; Bleak House; Hard Times; Little Dorrit; A Tale Of Two Cities; Great Expectations