I could always hear my better self clearing his throat in the room next door.Hearing voices allowed Charles Dickens to create extraordinary fictional worlds, The Guardian, 2014
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Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic, widely considered one of the greatest novelists of the Victorian era. He is renowned for his vivid characters, intricate plots, and depictions of the social issues in his works, including classics such as "Oliver Twist," "Great Expectations," and "A Christmas Carol."
1812–1870·lived 58 years
I could always hear my better self clearing his throat in the room next door.Hearing voices allowed Charles Dickens to create extraordinary fictional worlds, The Guardian, 2014
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.
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
He would make a lovely corpse.
Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.The Life of Charles Dickens, p. 123, 1872
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.A Christmas Carol, 1843
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.The Pickwick Papers, Chapter LVI, 1837
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.David Copperfield, p. 123, 1850
Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.Sketches by Boz, 1836-1837
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.Nicholas Nickleby, 1839
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for any one else.Our Mutual Friend, 1865
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result - happiness.David Copperfield, p. 100, 1850
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.David Copperfield, 1850
That’s all 15 quotes by Charles Dickens.