quotes by Charles Dickens

"There are books by which the backs and covers are by far the best parts."
— Charles Dickens

"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart. "
— 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 (A Tale of Two Cities )

"No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. "
— Charles Dickens

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

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

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."
— 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

"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 (Great Expectations)

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
— Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)

"There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart."
— Charles Dickens

"Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him."
— Charles Dickens (David Copperfield)

"My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest. "
— Charles Dickens (David Copperfield)

"You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"
— Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)

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

"MARLEY WAS DEAD: to begin with. "
— Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)

""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 (A Christmas Carol)

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."
— Charles Dickens

"Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering."
— Charles Dickens

"In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong."
— Charles Dickens (Great Expectations)