50+ Charles Dickens Quotes on Life, Love and Inspiration

Who was Charles Dickens?

Charles Dickens, full name – Charles Huffman Dickens was a highly reputed and celebrated English Writer and a Social Critic. He was born on February 7, 1812, in Hampshire, England. In his life, he created some of the most popular and world’s best known fictional characters during the Victorian Era. He is still considered one of the best Critics and Writers. People have also recognised him as the literary genius.

Early Life :

Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812. John Dickens was the name of his father, and his mother was Elizabeth Dickens. His father was a clerk within the Navy Pay office. He asked the gentleman and the head of the office to be the Godfather of his son, Charles. Huffman, the Godfather of Charles, later became the inspiration of Paul Dombey, who was the owner of the shipping company in the novels Dombey and Son (1848). Charles explains his early life as idyllic.

He used to read a lot of books and novels. He played outdoors, but he couldn’t go without reading. Charles Dickens uses the sad events of his life as a child in his writings and books. Because of his father’s job as a clerk, they managed to provide Charles with some private education too.

Early Novels And Journalism :

At the age of 20, In 1832, Charles had very high self-esteem and confidence. He was enthusiastic. Although he used to enjoy mimicry, Entertainment and Acting, he still lacked the sense of what he precisely wanted to do with his life. His ideas about his future were still vague, but one thing he was sure about was that he needed fame and name.
He wanted to be recognised and known. Having some interest in the theatre and Acting, He landed with Having the first opportunity to go for an audition. He prepared himself well for the part, imitating and trying to be Charles Mathews, A comedian of that era. Unfortunately, he couldn’t go for the audition, since he caught a cold.

Before he tried to grab another opportunity in the acting, he started to set his career as a writer. In the year 1832, he presented his first story, “A Dinner At Poplar Walk”. His story was published in the London periodical monthly magazine. Later, a brother of his mother offered him a job at the Mirror Of Parliament.
He started journalism from this point. He started writing about parliamentary debates, elections campaigns and other political views. Charles also used journalism in the form of sketches, in periodicals with which later he formed “Sketches By Boz”. Boz was Charles’s family nickname that he then used as his pen name for many years.

Writing and Literary Style :

Dicken’s writing style and novel were influenced by various aspects including melodrama, picaresque novel tradition and the novel of sensibility. Satire, irony and comedy were the main aspects of the picaresque novel. His writing style was considered fully nourished and profuse linguistic creation. Dickens is a writer who’s deemed to use idealising characters and highly sentimental and emotional characters and scenes, often revealing the ugly truths and sides of the world.

Philanthropy :

In May 1846, Angela Burdett Coutts approached Charles to help and build a redemption home for the fallen women of the working class. Angela Burdett Coutts wanted and imagined a home for the women that would help them fight the existing rules and create a reformative environment for the proficiency in household and other skills and getting them steps closer to the education. Although Dickens resisted at first, then he finally founded the home named “Urania Cottage.” For ten years, he managed everything about it. From 1847 to 1859, about 100 women graduated with the help of the home.

Charles Dickens was undoubtedly one of the best and famous writers of that era. In this article, we have collected the Best of Charles Dickens Quotes for you.

Compilation of Charles Dickens Quotes

Charles Dickens quotes on Life :

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

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

“We forge the chains we wear in life.”
― Charles Dickens

“Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.”
― Charles Dickens

“To a young heart everything is fun.”
― Charles Dickens

“Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.”
― Charles Dickens

“There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.”
― Charles Dickens

“This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.”
― Charles Dickens

“Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.”
― Charles Dickens

“Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.”
― Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens quotes on Love :

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
― Charles Dickens

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

“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.”
― Charles Dickens

“True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything.”
― Charles Dickens

“I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.”
― Charles Dickens

“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”
― Charles Dickens

“Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.”
― Charles Dickens

“A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.”
― Charles Dickens

“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

“There is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you.”
― Charles Dickens

“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens

“A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.”
― Charles Dickens

“I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.”
― Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens Inspirational quotes :

“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.”
― Charles Dickens

“Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.”
― Charles Dickens

“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.”
― Charles Dickens

“Change begets change.”
― Charles Dickens

“I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.”
― Charles Dickens

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.”
― Charles Dickens

“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.”
― Charles Dickens

“Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.”
― Charles Dickens

“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.”
― Charles Dickens

“Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.”
― Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens quotes on Happiness :

“Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.”
― Charles Dickens

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
― Charles Dickens

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

Charles Dickens quotes on Friendship :

“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
― Charles Dickens

“Friendship? Yes Please.”
― Charles Dickens

“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.”
― Charles Dickens

“What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never molts a feather?”
― Charles Dickens

“Without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute is benevolence to all things that breathe, true happiness can never be attained.”
― Charles Dickens

“Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?”
― Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens quotes on Nature :

“For 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.”
― Charles Dickens

“It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.”
― Charles Dickens

“The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation’s mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.”
― Charles Dickens

“The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.”
― Charles Dickens

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”
― Charles Dickens

“When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings.”
― Charles Dickens

“When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.”
― Charles Dickens

“The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them asleep if he could, but they were in movement, like the stream, and all tending one way with a strong current.”
― Charles Dickens

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