Quotes from Charles Dickens

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.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

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.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

You are in every line I have ever read.

My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. 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.

You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?" "I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "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.

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.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

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. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.

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.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

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.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused