Top 500 Charles Dickens Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”

— Charles Dickens

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

— Charles Dickens

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

— Charles Dickens

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

— Charles Dickens

55. “No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused.”

— Charles Dickens

56. “If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”

— Charles Dickens

57. “The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.”

— Charles Dickens

58. “The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season’s greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year be filled with joy.”

— Charles Dickens

59. “Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.”

— Charles Dickens

60. “And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.”

— Charles Dickens

61. “It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.”

— Charles Dickens

62. “Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.”

— Charles Dickens

63. “There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.”

— Charles Dickens

64. “Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.”

— Charles Dickens

65. “Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.”

— Charles Dickens

66. “Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!”

— Charles Dickens

67. “For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.”

— Charles Dickens

68. “Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!”

— Charles Dickens

69. “Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.”

— Charles Dickens

70. “It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.”

— Charles Dickens

71. “New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.”

— Charles Dickens

72. “Love is in all things a most wonderful teacher.”

— Charles Dickens

73. “And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!”

— Charles Dickens

74. “Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.”

— Charles Dickens

75. “Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.”

— Charles Dickens

76. “People like us don’t go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are.”

— Charles Dickens

77. “We never tire of the friendships we form with books.”

— Charles Dickens

78. “That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. 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.”

— Charles Dickens

79. “Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.”

— Charles Dickens

80. “We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?”

— Charles Dickens

81. “A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to the world!”

— Charles Dickens

82. “For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent’s love.”

— Charles Dickens

83. “I stole her heart away and put ice in its place.”

— Charles Dickens

84. “It is no small thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.”

— Charles Dickens

85. “Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.”

— Charles Dickens

86. “Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man’s pockets.”

— Charles Dickens

87. “I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven!”

— Charles Dickens

88. “Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.”

— Charles Dickens

89. “Never say never.”

— Charles Dickens

90. “There are chords in the human heart- strange, varying strings- which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch.”

— Charles Dickens

91. “Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.”

— Charles Dickens

92. “Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.”

— Charles Dickens

93. “Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.”

— Charles Dickens

94. “I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.”

— Charles Dickens

95. “Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.”

— Charles Dickens

96. “Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature .”

— Charles Dickens

97. “I only ask for information.”

— Charles Dickens

98. “Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.”

— Charles Dickens

99. “I was a blacksmith’s boy but yesterday; I am – what shall I say I am today?”

— Charles Dickens

100. “Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.”

— Charles Dickens