Sunday 7 February 2021

15 Quotes of Charles Dickens

        



       “Least said, soonest mended.”

“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.”

“Do all the good you can, and make as little fuss about it as possible.”

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

“A very little key will open a very heavy door.”

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

“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”

“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 going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on it being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.”

“Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.”

“There is a wisdom of the head, and…there is a wisdom of the heart.”

“Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we’d give blood.”

“There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.”

“Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.”

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



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