Charles Dickens Quotes
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
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.
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.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
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.
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
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 . . .
For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
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.
I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything
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.
Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.
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.
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.
I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt
New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.
The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.
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.
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.
Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
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.
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.
