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Charles Dickens Quotes

Total quotes: 19
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: one perfect sentence, Love, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.”
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Broken Heart, Pain, Heartbreak
“It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.”
— Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Giving, romance, Heartbreak
“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.”
— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Tagged: first lines of books
“The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become.”
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Unlocking Your Potential
“We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.”
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Perfect Words
“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. ”
— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carrol
Tagged: Laughter, Contagious, humor
“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.”
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Tagged: Charles Dickens, Summer
“It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done before; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.”
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Last Sentences, Going Away, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Remember now and then that there is a man who would die to keep someone you love beside you”
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Giving, romance, Heartbreak
“You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me.”
— Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens: The Complete Novels
Tagged: Forever With You
“Some people are nobody's enemies but their own.”
— Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: enemies, Self-Love, Hatred
“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.”
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Tagged: Brutally Honest, True Love, Soul Mates, Dreams, Love
“A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.”
— Charles Dickens, Major Works of Charles Dickens (Great Expectations / Hard Times / Oliver Twist / A Christmas Carol / Bleak House / A Tale of Two Cities)
Tagged: Friendship, charity
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: first lines of books
“Now, what I want is, Facts.”
— Charles Dickens, Hard Times
Tagged: First Line of Books, Hard Times, Facts
“Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.”
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Lies, Truth
“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the racking thoughts that crowd upon the mind, and make the heart beat violently, and the breath come thick, by the force of the images they conjure up before it; the desperate anxiety to be doing something to relieve the pain, or lessen the danger, which we have no power to alleviate; the sinking of soul and spirit, which the sad remembrance of our helplessness produces; what tortures can equal these; what reflections of endeavours can, in the full tide and fever of the time, allay them!”
— Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist: By Charles Dickens (Illustrated + Unabridged + Active Contents)
Tagged: what anxiety feels like, anxiety in literature, suspense, Life, Depression, Pain, Soul, Helplessness
“Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness. The great trees, which had looked shrunken and bare in the earlier months, had now burst into strong life and health; and stretching forth their green arms over the thirsty ground, converted open and naked spots into choice nooks, where was a deep and pleasant shade from which to look upon the wide prospect, steeped in sunshine, which lay stretched out beyond. The earth had donned her mantle of brightest green; and shed her richest perfumes abroad. It was the prime and vigour of the year; all things were glad and flourishing.”
— Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
Tagged: Summer, Endless Summer, Change Of Seasons
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