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Charles Dickens

Read through the most famous quotes from Charles Dickens




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


— Charles Dickens


#today

‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.


— Charles Dickens


#sydney-carton #love

It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.


— Charles Dickens


#lawyers #curiosity

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.


— Charles Dickens


#broken

Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.


— Charles Dickens


#spring

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.


— Charles Dickens


#gifts

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.


— Charles Dickens


#failure

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.


— Charles Dickens


#others #self #wasted

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.


— Charles Dickens


#tears #rain

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.


— Charles Dickens


#psychology






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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