Charles Dickens

Novelist English 1812 – 1870

English novelist famous for Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol.

380 quotes

"I love the beautiful season of autumn, when everything is dying away."
Nature
"The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick."
Humor
"My life has been one long struggle."
Perseverance
"The broken heart is the rarest thing in our shallow age."
"We are spirits of another sort, made of finer material."
Philosophy
"Master Humphrey's Clock was the great inspiration of my life."
Creativity
"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best part."
Literature
"The death of a man is a tragedy, but the death of a social order is a catastrophe."
History
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
Time
"We forge the chains we wear in life."
Freedom
"Where there is nothing to be done, do nothing."
Wisdom
"I have not lost an hour's sleep over the matter."
Peace
"The best of friends must part."
Friendship
"Some people are born with a great future behind them."
Humor
"Nobody said life was going to be easy."
Life
"The common complaint of people is that they haven't found their purpose."
Dreams
"I believe in the perfect beauty of this world."
Beauty
"Death ends the suffering of the living."
Death
"Whatever we do or say or think is important to someone."
"The better you behave, the better everyone behaves towards you."
Kindness
"A loving heart is the beginning and end of all knowledge."
Love
"Simple and sincere are the best."
Truth
"Nothing is impossible unless you make it impossible."
"Time has not changed the truth that binds us together."
Truth
"The pursuit of knowledge is a noble endeavor."
Knowledge
"We all know that wealth without mercy is a curse."
Money
"Idleness is the parent of all mischief."
Work
"The wise never give all the blame to one person."
Wisdom
"Each misery teaches us something precious."
Perseverance
"Memory is the treasure house of the mind."