Top 500 Charles Dickens Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”

— Charles Dickens

2. “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

3. “My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”

— Charles Dickens

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4. “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”

— Charles Dickens

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5. “Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”

— Charles Dickens

6. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

— Charles Dickens

7. “Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.”

— Charles Dickens

8. “What greater gift than the love of a cat.”

— Charles Dickens

9. “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.”

— Charles Dickens

10. “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”

— Charles Dickens

11. “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”

— Charles Dickens

12. “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”

— Charles Dickens

13. “Reflect upon your present blessings – of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”

— Charles Dickens

14. “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.”

— Charles Dickens

15. “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.”

— Charles Dickens

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

— Charles Dickens

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

— Charles Dickens

18. “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”

— Charles Dickens

19. “I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.”

— Charles Dickens

20. “A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”

— Charles Dickens

21. “Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”

— Charles Dickens

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22. “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.”

— Charles Dickens

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23. “Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.”

— Charles Dickens

24. “Walk and be Happy, Walk and be Healthy...”

— Charles Dickens

25. “I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.”

— Charles Dickens

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

— Charles Dickens

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27. “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.”

— Charles Dickens

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28. “It is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.”

— Charles Dickens

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29. “There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.”

— Charles Dickens

30. “To a young heart everything is fun.”

— Charles Dickens

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31. “We forge the chains we wear in life.”

— Charles Dickens

32. “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

33. “An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.”

— Charles Dickens

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34. “The law is an ass, an idiot.”

— Charles Dickens

35. “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!”

— Charles Dickens

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36. “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.”

— Charles Dickens

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37. “The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy; walk and be healthy. The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose.”

— Charles Dickens

38. “A very little key will open a very heavy door.”

— Charles Dickens

39. “Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.”

— Charles Dickens

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40. “God bless us, every one!”

— Charles Dickens

41. “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

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42. “Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.”

— Charles Dickens

43. “Least said, soonest mended.”

— Charles Dickens

44. “There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.”

— Charles Dickens

45. “A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.”

— Charles Dickens

46. “A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.”

— Charles Dickens

47. “Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; – the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!”

— Charles Dickens

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48. “A new heart for a New Year, always!”

— Charles Dickens

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49. “We need never be ashamed of our tears.”

— Charles Dickens

50. “Death is a mighty, universal truth.”

— Charles Dickens