Charles Dickens Quotes

“suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

topic:change suffering teaching

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

topic:writing books

“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”

― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

topic:reading

“A multitude of people, and yet a solitude!”

― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

topic:loneliness

“There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.”

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“It is a world of disappointment: often to the hopes we most cherish, and hopes that do our nature the greatest honour.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

topic:hope

“There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth. But since my duty has not been incompatible with the admission of that remembrance, I have given it a place in my...”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

topic:memory worth

“It's in vain . . . to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.”

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

topic:memory past present

“the cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.”

― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

topic:darkness light care

“Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.”

― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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