Charles Dickens Quotes - Page 3

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

  Charles Dickens

  Travel, Home, Appreciate

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.14099, Delphi Classics

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• The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Tongue, Habit

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Old Curiosity Shop--and Reprinted Pieces”, p.154

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• True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Believe, Bears

  Charles Dickens (1871). “Works”, p.448

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• A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

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

  Charles Dickens

  Mind, Colour, New Thought

  Charles Dickens (2006). “David Copperfield”, p.762, Penguin

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• I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Spiritual, Truth

  Charles Dickens (2001). “David Copperfield”, p.254, Broadview Press

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• I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.

  Charles Dickens

  Phrases, Fit, Educated

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'eighty: Easyread Large Edition”, p.216, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

  Charles Dickens

  Adversity, Camels, Lasts

  Charles Dickens (1855). “Household Words”, p.59

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• Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Sea, Waiting

  Charles Dickens (1844). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit: His Relatives, Friends and Enemies ...”, p.169

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• Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Autumn, Giving

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.165

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• Keep up appearances whatever you do.

  Charles Dickens

  Political, Advice, Politics

  Martin Chuzzlewit ch. 11 (1844)

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• Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

  Charles Dickens

  Failure, Men, Teach

  "Little Dorrit".

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• We need never be ashamed of our tears.

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  Sad, Break Up, Breakup

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Great Expectations”, Xist Publishing

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• 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

  Children, Parent, World

  Charles Dickens (1872). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.145

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• I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

  Charles Dickens

  World, Surprise, Enough

  Charles Dickens (2016). “David Copperfield (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.115, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

  Charles Dickens

  Regret, Hair, Age

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.183, Booklassic

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• 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

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• Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

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  Words Of Wisdom, Said, Being True

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Charles Dickens: The Complete Christmas Books and Stories [A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, A Christmas Tree, The Cricket on the Hearth, etc] (Book House)”, p.199, Book House

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• To a young heart everything is fun.

  Charles Dickens

  Fun, Heart, Enjoy Life

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• A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

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  Love, Funny, Family

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• Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

  Charles Dickens

  Wise, Kind, Worst

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• Love is in all things a most wonderful teacher.

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  Love, Teacher, Wonderful

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.774, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Happiness, Thanksgiving

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Sketches by Boz”, p.172

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• Have a heart that never hardens

  Charles Dickens

  Heart

  Charles Dickens (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens ...”

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• You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What I mean is that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Mean, Men

  Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens: Our mutual friend”, p.345

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