Charles Dickens Quotes About Life

• Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.455, Cosimo, Inc.

• Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Littles, Helping

• A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Charles Dickens (2007). “David Copperfield”, Bloomsbury Pub Limited

• Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Saying Goodbye, Expectations

  Charles Dickens (2012). “A Great Expectations in Plain and Simple English (Includes Study Guide, Complete Unabridged Book, Historical Context, Biography”, p.568, BookCaps Study Guides

• There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Strong, Truth

  Charles Dickens (2007). “David Copperfield”, Bloomsbury Pub Limited

• Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Moral, Existence

  'Martin Chuzzlewit' (1844) ch. 9 (Mr Pecksniff)

• Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Contentment, Cheerful

• This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Autism, World

  Charles Dickens (2016). “David Copperfield (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.113, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

• Love is not a feeling to pass away
  Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day.......
  Love is not a passion of earthly mould
  As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Summer, Passion

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.12259, Delphi Classics

• They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Holiday, Mind

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.580, Delphi Classics

• My life is one demd horrid grind.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Life Is, Grind

  'Nicholas Nickleby' (1839) ch. 64 (Mr Mantalini)

• Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Interesting, Watches

  1843-4 Jonas Chuzzlewit. Martin Chuzzlewit, ch.18.

• Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Cells, Ivy

  Charles Dickens (1905). “The Pickwick Papers”, p.70

• There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Children, Memories

• While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Flower, Heart

  Charles Dickens (1996). “Little Dorrit”, p.320, Wordsworth Editions

• Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Success, Men

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