Charles Dickens Quotes

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

What greater gift than the love of a cat.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.

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

It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.

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

I must do something or I shall wear my heart away...

I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.

I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.

‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

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.

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art."

(Last words, according to Dickens's obituary in The Times.)

Some conjurers say that number three is the magic number, and some say number seven. It's neither my friend, neither. It's number one. (Fagin)

Never say never

Cada fracaso enseña algo que se necesitaba aprender.

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

The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.