Charles Dickens Quotes

“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”

― Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

topic:friendship

“the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile”

― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

topic:wisdom

“I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.”

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

topic:reality

“he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.”

― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very severely.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

topic:pain change suffering

“it is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

topic:pain kindness

“Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?”

― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

topic:pain loss

“Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief itself arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

topic:pain joy grief

“Although Oliver had been brought up by philosophers, he was not theoretically acquainted with the beautiful axiom that self-preservation is the first law of nature.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

topic:nature philosophy

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

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

topic:change hope

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