Books and other Resources about Charles Dickens

>Charles John Huffam Dickens was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature’s most iconic characters.  Many of his novels, with their recurrent concern for social reform, first appeared in magazines in serialised form, a popular format at the time.  The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they have never gone out of print.

Quotes Attributed to: Charles Dickens

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

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

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

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

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

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

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

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

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

We forge the chains we wear in life.