A British novelist, editor, journalist, illustrator, and social commentator who wrote numerous highly acclaimed novels such as Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations.
David Copperfield became known the world over for his remarkable characters, his mastery of prose in the telling of their lives, and his depictions of the social classes, and values of his times. Some considered him the spokesman for the poor, for he definitely brought much awareness to their plight, the downtrodden and the have-nots.
Dickens’s novels combine brutality with fairy-tale fantasy; farce, and melodrama.; the ordinary with the strange. They range from the comic, tender, dramatic, sentimental, grotesque, melodramatic, horrible, eccentric, and mysterious.
(1812-1870)
– Charles Dickens Quotes –
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
~ Charles Dickens
There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
~ Charles Dickens
This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
~ Charles Dickens
‘Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
~ Charles Dickens
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
~ Charles Dickens
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
~ Charles Dickens
Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
~ Charles Dickens
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
~ Charles Dickens
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.
~ Charles Dickens
We are so very ‘umble.
~ Charles Dickens
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
~ Charles Dickens
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
~ Charles Dickens
You don’t carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.
~ Charles Dickens
We forge the chains we wear in life.
~ Charles Dickens
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
~ Charles Dickens
A boy’s story is the best that is ever told.
~ Charles Dickens
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
~ Charles Dickens
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
~ Charles Dickens
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
~ Charles Dickens
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.
~ Charles Dickens
Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
~ Charles Dickens
Do you spell it with a “V” or a “W”?’ inquired the judge. ‘That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord’.
~ Charles Dickens
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
~ Charles Dickens
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
~ Charles Dickens
Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows – and china.
~ Charles Dickens
A person who can’t pay gets another person who can’t pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don’t make either of them able to do a walking-match.
~ Charles Dickens
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
~ Charles Dickens
Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances… in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.
~ Charles Dickens
