Charles Dickens

     Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.

Charles Dickens's Quotes

• Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
• There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. 
• Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. 
• Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. 
• 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. 
• No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. 
• There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. 
• Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. 
• To a young heart everything is fun. 
• My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. 
• 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. 
• I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together. 
• For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. 
• It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.