Charles Dickens

10 quotes

Lived: 1812 – 1870
Era: 19th century
Place: London, England

Victorian novelist whose stories of hardship and renewal became fixtures of English literature.

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The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
— Charles DickensHope
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
— Charles DickensHope
Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every person has many — not on past misfortunes.
— Charles DickensGratitude
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
— Charles DickensHope
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well.
— Charles DickensGrowth
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.
— Charles DickensGrowth
Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business.
— Charles DickensGratitude
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
— Charles DickensSmile
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There an’t much credit in that. If I was very ragged and very jolly, then I should begin to feel I had gained a point.
— Charles DickensSmile
My constitution is, to be jolly; and my weakness is, to wish to find a credit in it.
— Charles DickensSmile