Thursday 7 February 2019

7 February: Charles Dickens Quotes

10 Quotes from Charles Dickens, who was born on 7 February 1812.


  1. Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
  2. The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
  3. A very little key will open a very heavy door.
  4. Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
  5. No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
  6. Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
  7. Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
  8. Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.
  9. Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.
  10. There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.

See also: Facts about Charles Dickens

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