Charles Dickens Quotes
50. “There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
49. “Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”
48. “Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
47. “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.”
46. “A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
45. “And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.”
44. “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.”
43. “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.”
42. “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
41. “We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
40. “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.”
39. “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
38. “What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
37. “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.”
36. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
35. “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
34. “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!”
33. “You have been the last dream of my soul.”
32. “Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.”
31. “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.”
30. “I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.”
29. “Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
28. “Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”
27. “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
26. “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
25. “No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”
24. “There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.”
23. “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.”
22. “I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.”
21. “There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.”
20. “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”
19. “Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.”
18. “Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”
17. “And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.”
16. “It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.”
15. “So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.”
14. “Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.”
13. “Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.”
12. “There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.”
11. “The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.”
10. “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.”
9. “I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
8. “To a young heart everything is fun.”
7. “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.”
6. “Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”
5. “My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”
4. “A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.”
3. “I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.”
2. “Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.”
1. “I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt”
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