CHARLES DICKENS MOST FAMOUS QUOTES

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

(A Tale of Two Cities)

“Please, sir, I want some more.”

“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”

(David Copperfield)

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”

(A Christmas Carol)

“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”

(A Christmas Carol)

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

(Our Mutual Friend)

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

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

(Great Expectations)

“No one ever died of a broken heart; but when your heart breaks, you’ll wish you did.”

(Nicholas Nickleby)

“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”

(Nicholas Nickleby)

“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” RABBIE BURNS NEW YEAR QUOTES

(David Copperfield)

“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.”

(The Pickwick Papers)

“Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.”

(Martin Chuzzlewit)

“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.”

(Great Expectations)

“We forge the chains we wear in life.”

(Marley’s Ghost, A Christmas Carol)

“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.”

(Our Mutual Friend)

“It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.”

(Great Expectations)

“The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.”

“A person who can’t pay gets another person who can’t pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don’t make either of them able to do a walking-match.”

“The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.”

(The Old Curiosity Shop)