Charles Dickens Quotes & Sayings

73 most famous Charles Dickens quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an English novelist who passed away on 9 June, 1870.

“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.”

“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.”

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”

“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 pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.”

“The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.”

“The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.”

“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”

“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.”