110+ Charles Dickens Quotes On Christmas, America And Poverty

Charles Dickens was an English writer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest authors of the Victorian era. He wrote many popular novels, including Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, and Great Expectations. His works are known for their memorable characters, vivid settings, and social commentary on the plight of the poor. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Charles Dickens on love, christmas, life.

Top 10 Charles Dickens Quotes

1. 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.
2. Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
3. 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.
4. No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
5. A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
6. Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.
7. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
8. 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.
9. Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
10. Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Charles Dickens Image Quotes

A loving heart is the truest wisdom. — Charles Dickens

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible. — Charles Dickens

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. — Charles Dickens

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. — Charles Dickens

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him. — Charles Dickens

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. — Charles Dickens

We forge the chains we wear in life. — Charles Dickens

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. — Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings — Charles Dickens

We need never be ashamed of our tears. — Charles Dickens

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. — Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart. — Charles Dickens

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. — Charles Dickens

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. — Charles Dickens

There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner. — Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens Short Quotes

• Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
• Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
• There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
• We need never be ashamed of our tears.
• There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
• Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.
• Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
• A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
• That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.
• Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Charles Dickens Quotes About Love

What greater gift than the love of a cat. — Charles Dickens

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her! — Charles Dickens

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world. — Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings — Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart. — Charles Dickens

You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. — Charles Dickens

And the voices in the waves are always whispering to Florence, in their ceaseless murmuring, of love - of love, eternal and illimitable, not bounded by the confines of this world, or by the end of time, but ranging still, beyond the sea, beyond the sky, to the invisible country far away! — 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

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. — Charles Dickens

And it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. — Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens Quotes About Christmas

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. — Charles Dickens

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. — Charles Dickens

There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it. — Charles Dickens

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely. — Charles Dickens

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! — Charles Dickens

Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away. — Charles Dickens

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. — Charles Dickens

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour. — Charles Dickens

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me. — Charles Dickens

every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. — Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens Quotes About Life

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. — Charles Dickens

We forge the chains we wear in life. — Charles Dickens

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing. — Charles Dickens

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. — Charles Dickens

For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him. — Charles Dickens

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

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own. — Charles Dickens

Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you. — Charles Dickens

I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives. "Jerry, say that my answer was, 'RECALLED TO LIFE. — Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens Quotes About Poverty

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature. — Charles Dickens

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth! — Charles Dickens

Poverty and oysters always seem to go together. — Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens Quotes About Marriage

Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with. — Charles Dickens

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — Charles Dickens

I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort. — Charles Dickens

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained. — Charles Dickens

When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste. — Charles Dickens

All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels the independence and the safety of a single life. — Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens Quotes About Education

Minerva House was a finishing establishment for young ladies, where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing. — Charles Dickens

I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing. — Charles Dickens

A very little key will open a very heavy door. — Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens Quotes About Society

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

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society. — Charles Dickens

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death. — Charles Dickens

... Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one's glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one's nose. — Charles Dickens

Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and an implacable determination to be avenged. — Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens Quotes About Fiction

There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one. — Charles Dickens

Ven you read the speeches in the papers, and see as vun gen'lman says of another, 'the Honourable member, if he vill allow me to call him so' you vill understand, sir, that that means, 'if he vill allow me to keep up that 'ere pleasant and uniwersal fiction.' — Charles Dickens

"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more." — Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens Quotes About People

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. — Charles Dickens

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. — Charles Dickens

it's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly. — Charles Dickens

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people. — Charles Dickens

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand. — Charles Dickens

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. — Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon. — Charles Dickens

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine. — Charles Dickens

You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives. — Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion. — Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens Quotes About Heart

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. — Charles Dickens

it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself. — Charles Dickens

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle. — Charles Dickens

Have a heart that never hardens — Charles Dickens

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day. — Charles Dickens

I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did! — Charles Dickens

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof. — Charles Dickens

I will honour 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

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

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day. — Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens Quotes About World

The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour. — Charles Dickens

Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples. — Charles Dickens

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. — Charles Dickens

And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up! — Charles Dickens

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

What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world! — Charles Dickens

I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her. — Charles Dickens

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. — Charles Dickens

The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world. — Charles Dickens

The dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown. — Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens Famous Quotes And Sayings

A loving heart is the truest wisdom. — Charles Dickens

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible. — Charles Dickens

An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door. — Charles Dickens

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. — Charles Dickens

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. — Charles Dickens

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. — Charles Dickens

We forge the chains we wear in life. — Charles Dickens

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. — Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings — Charles Dickens

We need never be ashamed of our tears. — Charles Dickens

On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . . — Charles Dickens

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. — Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart. — Charles Dickens

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. — Charles Dickens

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. — Charles Dickens

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. — Charles Dickens

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time. — Charles Dickens

There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner. — Charles Dickens

the sight of me is good for sore eyes — Charles Dickens

Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away. — Charles Dickens

The heavy rain beat down the tender branches of vine and jessamine, and trampled on them in its fury; and when the lightning gleamed, it showed the tearful leaves shivering and cowering together at the window, and tapping at it urgently, as if beseeching to be sheltered from the dismal night. — Charles Dickens

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. — Charles Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. — Charles Dickens

Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own. — Charles Dickens

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

Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade. — Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies. — Charles Dickens

One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth. — Charles Dickens

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine! — Charles Dickens

There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us. — 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

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. — Charles Dickens

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. — Charles Dickens

You have been the last dream of my soul. — Charles Dickens

But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business! — Charles Dickens

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat. — Charles Dickens

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. — Charles Dickens

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them. — Charles Dickens

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood. — Charles Dickens

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. — Charles Dickens

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. — Charles Dickens

But, for all that, they had a very pleasant walk. The trees were bare of leaves, and the river was bare of water-lilies; but the sky was not bare of its beautiful blue, and the water reflected it, and a delicious wind ran with the stream, touching the surface crisply. — Charles Dickens

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money! — Charles Dickens

This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it? — Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told. — Charles Dickens

Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it? — Charles Dickens

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast. — Charles Dickens

All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature. — Charles Dickens

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. — Charles Dickens

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

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies. — Charles Dickens

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some — Charles Dickens

Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities. — Charles Dickens

The sum of the whole is this: walk and b« happy! walk and be healthy. The best of all ways to lengthen ourdays, is notas Mr. Thomas Moore has it, " ]To steal a few hours from night, my love;" but with leave, be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose. — Charles Dickens

Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile. — Charles Dickens

The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east. — Charles Dickens

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. — Charles Dickens

Satisfy yourself beyond all doubt that you are qualified for the course to which you now aspire.....and try to achieve something in your own land before you venture on a strange one. — Charles Dickens

External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. — Charles Dickens

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better. — 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

Life Lessons by Charles Dickens

1. Charles Dickens taught us the importance of compassion and empathy, encouraging us to think of others and to help those in need.
2. He also showed us the power of resilience and hard work, as his characters often faced difficult circumstances but still managed to find hope and joy in life.
3. Finally, he reminded us of the importance of standing up for what is right and speaking out against injustice and inequality.