Quotes and Sayings

About Author : Charles John Huffam Dickens, FRSA (IPA: /?t??rlz ?d?k?nz/; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870), pen-name “Boz”, was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Considered one of the English language’s greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters, and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime.

Charles Dickens Quotes and Sayings
It was the best of times it was the worst of times.

If a pig could give his mind to anything he would not be a pig.

In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.

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

A merry Christmas to everybody A happy New Year to all the world.

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time when it has come round as a good time a kind forgiving charitable pleasant time the only time I know of in the long calendar of the year when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

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.

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

In love of home the love of country has its rise.

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 honestly out of countenance any day of the week if there is anything to get got by it.

By the time we hit fifty we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously but never ourselves.

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.

It was always said of him Scrooge that he knew how to keep Christmas well if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us and all of us.

‘A merry Christmas uncle God save you’ cried a cheerful voice. ‘Bah’ said Scrooge. ‘Humbug’.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Once upon a time–of all the good days in the year on Christmas Eve old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house.

‘Out upon merry Christmas What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money a time for finding yourself a year older but not an hour richer.If I could work my will’ said Scrooge indignantly ‘every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should’
There is always something for which to be thankful.

Then Bob proposed ‘A Merry Christmas to us all my dears. God bless us’ Which all his family re-echoed. ‘God bless us every one’ said Tiny Tim the last of all.

‘At this festive season of the year Mr Scrooge’ said the gentleman taking up a pen ‘it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute who suffer greatly at the present time. We choose this time because it is a time of all others when Want is keenly felt and Abundance rejoices.’

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.

It was the best of times it was the worst of times it ws the age of wisdom it was the age of foolishness it was the epoch of belief it was the epoch of incredulity it was the season of Light it was the season of Darkness it was the spring of hope it was the winter of despair we had everything before us we had nothing before us we were all going directly to Heaven we were all going the other way.

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

It was a turkey He could never have stood upon his legs that bird He would have snapped ‘em off short in a minute like sticks of sealing wax.

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.

Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me coming home that he hoped the people saw him in the church because he was a cripple and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day who made lame beggars walk and blind men see.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

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

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

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

It was the best of times it was the worst of times it was the age of wisdom it was the age of foolishness it was the epoch of belief it was the epoch of incredulity it was the season of Light it was the season of Darkness it was the spring of hope it was the winter of despair we had everything before us we had nothing before us we were all going direct to heaven we were all doing direct the other way in short the period was so far like the present period that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received for good or for evil in the superlative degree of comparison only.

Annual income twenty pounds annual expenditure nineteen six result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six result misery.

Minds like bodies will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

With affection beaming out of one eye and calculation shining out of the other.