1812-1870, British Novelist
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
Charles Dickens – [Existence]
Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
Charles Dickens – [Life and Living]
Lord, keep my memory green.
Charles Dickens – [Memory]
Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.
Charles Dickens – [Friends and Friendship]
Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Charles Dickens – [Mind]
Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Charles Dickens – [Mind]
Minerva House was ''a finishing establishment for young ladies,'' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.
Charles Dickens – [School]
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Charles Dickens – [Change]
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens – [Worth]
Now, what I want is, facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!
Charles Dickens – [Facts]
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
Charles Dickens – [Neurosis]
Philosophers are only men in armor after all.
Charles Dickens – [Philosophers and Philosophy]
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens – [Gratitude]
Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs.
Charles Dickens – [Regret]
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
Charles Dickens – [Abstinence]
Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.
Charles Dickens – [Hope]
Take example by your father, my boy, and be very careful of vidders all your life, specially if they've kept a public house, Sammy.
Charles Dickens – [Widowhood]
The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread — in Ireland, sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!
Charles Dickens – [Politicians and Politics]
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
Charles Dickens – [Endurance]
The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Charles Dickens – [Creativity]
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