Charles Dickens Quotes

“I'll tell you . . . what real love is. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter—as I did!”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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“When I speak of home, I speak of the place where—in default of a better—those I love are gathered together; and if that place were a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.”

― Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

topic:love home

“Love her, love her, love her! If she favors 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, Great Expectations

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“Constancy in love is a good thing, but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.”

― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

topic:love

“trifles make the sum of life.”

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

topic:life importance

“And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.”

― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

topic:life death

“Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.”

― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

topic:life worth

“Gradually, he fell into that deep tranquil sleep which ease from recent suffering alone imparts; that calm and peaceful rest which it is pain to wake from. Who, if this were death, would be roused again to all the struggles and turmoils of life;...”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

topic:death past

“Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself...”

― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

topic:happiness sun

“My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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