40+ CHARLES DICKENS Quotes And Phrases
Forty Plus Charles Dickens Quotes Collected From Some Of His Most Famous Books. Shareable Images Are Also Included In This Post.
Charles Dickens was one of the most important writers of the 19th century, whose influence extends beyond literature. Many of his expressions, characters and ideas are embedded deep in modern culture, and it is not surprising that almost all the details of his life have been carefully studied and remembered.
Especially in the Charles Dickens Museum in London, placed in the house where he lived with his family from 1837-1839. years. Curators here love to retell lesser-known details from the life of the Victorian writer. Check more quotes from writers on Edgar Allan Poe quotes.
The museum is temporarily closed due to the epidemic, but we are revealing a few of these anecdotes and details, with the desire that when all this is over, you can visit London and hear them for yourself.
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Charles Dickens Oddities
Charles Dickens tale of two cities quotes
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
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
I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul
Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you
Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself
Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph
Remember how strong we are in our happiness, and how weak he is in is misery!
Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule
Charles Dickens Christmas Quotes
For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year
The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season’s greetings and good wishes
Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime
Christmas may not bring a single thing; still, it gives me a song to sing
There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas
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
What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You’re rich enough
Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!
Come in, come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before
Charles Dickens Quotes About Love
There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated
A loving heart is the truest wisdom
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
This love that makes the world go round, my baby
And if it’s proud to have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts, she is proud. And if it’s not, she is not
Love is not a feeling to pass away, like the balmy breath of a summer day; it is not — it cannot be — laid aside; it is not a thing to forget or hide
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart
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
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world
It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded
Charles Dickens Famous Quotes
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts
And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death
You have been the last dream of my soul
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
Great men are seldom over scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire
It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing so irresistibly contagious as laughter
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues–faith and hope
People need to rise early, to see the sun in all his splendour, for his brightness seldom lasts the day through. The morning of day and the morning of life are but too much alike
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again
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