Quotes from Charles Dickens
It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.
- Charles Dickens
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
- Charles Dickens
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
And it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.
- Charles Dickens
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
- Charles Dickens
One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.
- Charles Dickens
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
- Charles Dickens
True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything.
- Charles Dickens
Love is in all things a most wonderful teacher.
- Charles Dickens
Death is a mighty, universal truth.
- Charles Dickens
She better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than herself.
- Charles Dickens
And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round!
- Charles Dickens