Quotes from Charles Dickens

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

To a young heart everything is fun.

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.

The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me.

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.

I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest.

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.