Novelist · English · 1812 – 1870 · 73 quotes
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.
Charles Dickens
Novelist · English · 1812 – 1870
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
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.
A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
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.
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 have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
He would make a lovely corpse.
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.
We are so very 'umble.
A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.
