I was very glad afterwards to have had the interview; for, in her face and in her voice, and in her touch, she gave me the assurance, that suffering had been stronger than Miss Havisham’s teaching, and had given her a heart to understand what my heart used to be.

— Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens Quotes

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

— Charles Dickens
Positive Life Short Inspiring Motivational About Life Kindness Appreciation

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

— Charles Dickens
Time Deep About Life Taking Action About Work Procrastination

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
Sad About Life Loss Sadness Rain

The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance.

— Charles Dickens

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

— Charles Dickens

Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.

— Charles Dickens

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

— Charles Dickens

In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease – a terrible passing inclination to die of it.

— Charles Dickens

You can’t make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn’t do it when your uncle George was living much less when he’s dead.

— Charles Dickens

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.

— Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

— Charles Dickens

Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.

— Charles Dickens

A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.

— Charles Dickens

Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.

— Charles Dickens

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings.

— Charles Dickens

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

— Charles Dickens

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

— Charles Dickens

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

— Charles Dickens

The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.

— Charles Dickens

And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment.

— Charles Dickens
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