Charles Dickens Quotes

It is not in my nature to hide anything. I cannot close my lips when I have opened my heart.

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

Charity begins at home, and justice at the next door.

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

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

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else a little.

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

Ask nothing, and you won't be told lies.

It is a law of fair, equitable, and salutary compensation that, just as there is contagion in disease and sorrow, nothing in the world is more contagious than laughter and good humor.

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.

He loved her against all reason, against all promise, against all peace and hope, and against the happiness and disappointment that could be in it.

God knows that we should never be ashamed of our tears, because they are the rain that cleanses the blinding dust of the earth that covers our hardened hearts.