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Charles Dickens

Read through the most famous quotes from Charles Dickens




What greater gift than the love of a cat.


— Charles Dickens


#gifts #love #love

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.


— Charles Dickens


#times #worst

Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.


— Charles Dickens


#travel

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


— Charles Dickens


#joy #meeting #nothing #pain #parting

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.


— Charles Dickens


#love

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.


— Charles Dickens


#morality #pip #wrong

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.


— Charles Dickens


#micawber #procrastination #classics

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.


— Charles Dickens


#gratefulness #misfortunes #reflection #men

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


— Charles Dickens


#reading-books

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.


— Charles Dickens


#wisdom






About Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens Quotes




Did you know about Charles Dickens?

Dickens was 45 and Ternan 18 when he made the decision which went strongly against Victorian convention to separate from his wife Catherine in 1858—divorce was still unthinkable for someone as famous as he was. The resulting story was the The Pickwick Papers with the final instalment selling 40000 copies. Dickens managed to avoid an appearance at the inquest to avoid disclosing that he had been travelling with Ternan and her mother which would have caused a scandal.

He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. His creative genius has been praised by fellow writers—from Leo Tolstoy to G. Born in Portsmouth England Dickens left school to work in a factory after his father was thrown into debtors' prison.

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