Charles Dickens (Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA) was an English writer and social critic who inspired people. He is also known for the world’s best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
Throughout his life and even now, the writings of Dickens are world-famous and keep mesmerizing people.
Below are some of the famous Charles Dickens quotes:
- A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.
- Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
- It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.
- The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
- There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.
- No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
- We need never be ashamed of our tears.
- 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.
- Please sir, I want some more.
- 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.
- There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
- Family not only needs to consist of merely those with whom we share blood but also of those whom we’d give blood.
- Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.
- It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts that I would spare them from being wounded.
- Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.
- There are very few moments in a man’s existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress or meets with so little charitable commiseration as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.