THE 100 BEST PHRASES OF CHARLES DICKENS [WITH IMAGES] - ECONOMÍA - 2025

Here are the best quotes from Charles Dickens, an English writer and critic of Victorian society, famous for his short stories and novels. His works include the novels Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and Great Expectations and the story A Christmas Carol.

If Anglo-Saxon culture can boast of anything, it is its literature. And it's no surprise that, apart from Shakespeare, everyone has heard of Charles.

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) wrote 15 novels, 5 short novels, and hundreds of short stories and newspaper articles. All this having left school at the age of 12 to work in a factory earning 6 shillings a week (approximately 42 euro cents).

His style exudes picaresque, linguistic creativity and satire, qualities with which he lashed out and caricatured Victorian society. Proof of this ingenuity are the following famous quotes, for which Charles Dickens has gone down in history as one of the best writers of British prose.

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-No one who alleviates the ills of others is useless in this world.

-The heavens know that we should never be ashamed of our tears.

-A heart that loves is the truest of wisdoms.

-We forge the chains that we wear throughout our lives.

-We should never be ashamed of our tears.

-Love is what makes the world go round.

-A sincere word is worth more than a speech.

-The pain of separation is incomparable to the joy of reunion.

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

-Repentance is typical of those who comb gray hair.

-You appear in all the lines I have read in my life.

-Do not leave for tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

-There are strings in the human heart that it is better that they never vibrate.

-Every traveler has a home, a home that he learns to love more during his travels.

-I could never have achieved what I did without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence; without the determination to focus on one task at a time.

-The family is not only those people with whom we share blood, but also those for whom we would spill our blood.

-Never trust the appearance, but the evidence. There is no better rule.

"Contain your appetites, my friends, and you will have conquered human nature."

-No regret can make up for lost opportunities in life.

-The hatred of those above is the unconscious homage of those below.

-When a man bleeds inside, it is dangerous for him, but when he laughs inside, it is an omen of some evil for others.

-Hiding something from those I love is not in my nature. I cannot seal my lips where I have opened my heart.

-There is nothing as strong or sure during a crisis in life as the truth.

-There are books whose front and back covers are by far the best parts.

-Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

-Don't ask questions and no lies will be answered.

-There is a wisdom of the head and one of the heart.

-A crowd of people and, even so, loneliness.

-What better gift is there than the love of a cat?

-Money and goods are the best references.

-Have a heart that never hardens, a temperament that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

-The things that never happened sometimes have consequences as real as those that were achieved.

-Things are the basis of life.

-The mind, like the body, can deteriorate if exposed to excessive comfort.

-The courtesy that money buys is rarely accorded to those who lack it.

-Any man can be in good spirits and be happy if he is well dressed.

-If bad people didn't exist, good lawyers wouldn't exist.

-I will try to honor Christmas in my heart and to keep that feeling all year long.

-A wonderful fact to ponder is that every human creature is conceived to be an indecipherable mystery to any other.

-Happiness is a gift that we should not expect, but one that we should enjoy when it arrives.

-God knows that we should never be ashamed of our tears, since they are the rain that sweeps away the blinding dust that covers our hearts.

-God knows that in this life there are days in which it is worth living and in which it is worth dying.

-If it corresponds to you, love her. If it hurts you, love it. If it breaks your heart, love her. And if the wounds of the heart deepen as it grows and gets stronger, love her, love her.

-You have been the last dream of my soul.

-In a word, I have been too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, just as I have been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

-I hope that true love and truth are finally stronger than any evil or misfortune in the world.

-Concentrate on all the good things that happen to you, which happens a lot to all of us; and not in misfortunes, which happen to all of us.

-There was a time, long and hard, when I tried to forget what I had wasted and when I was too ignorant to see its value.

-No one who can read looks at a book in the same way as someone who does not know, even if it is closed and on a shelf.

-I think so much about people with a good and sensitive heart, that it would protect them all from being hurt.

-Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and pettiness tend to be at the service of the people we hate the most.

-There is a prodigious force in sadness and hopelessness.

-Industry is the lifeblood of business and the key to prosperity.

-I loved her against all reason, against all promise, against all peace, against all hope, against all happiness, against all obstacles that may exist.

-A day wasted on other people is not a day wasted on us.

- That I turn out to be the hero of my own life or that it is another person, these pages will say it.

-I must be understood as I am. Neither success nor failure is mine, but they both make me what I am.

-For a young heart, everything is fun.

-No man who is not chivalrous in his heart is so in his ways.

-The man feels lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman feels lucky if she is the last love of a man.

-Death can beget life, but oppression only begets more oppression.

-I stole her heart and put ice in its place.

I looked at the stars and thought how terrible it would be if a man looked at them at the moment of his death, and found neither help nor compassion in such a brilliant crowd.

-In such a utilitarian age, more than in any other time, it is of great importance that fairy tales are respected.

-No varnish can hide wood grain, and the more varnish you apply, the more noticeable they will be.

-Life is a set of goodbyes.

-Revenge and punishment take a long time.

-Credit is a system by which a person who cannot pay makes another person who cannot pay guarantee that he can pay.

-Freedom, equality, fraternity or death. The latter is the easiest to award.

-I must do something or my heart will wear out.

-I only ask to be free, butterflies are free.

-I don't know the American gentleman. May God forgive me for using those words together!

-Electric communication will never be a substitute for face-to-face communication with someone whose soul encourages us to be brave and true.

Every idiot who goes around saying "Merry Christmas!" it should be boiled with its own entrails and buried with a mistletoe branch through its heart.

-Women can always say things with fewer words, except when they are angry. Then they expand.

-It is not worth remembering the past, unless it has some influence on the present.

-Gold blinds man more, destroys his values ​​more and lulls his feelings more than coal smoke.

-Vices are sometimes virtues carried to excess.

-Consider that nothing is impossible and treats possibilities as probabilities.

-The worst of those who listen is the one who only listens.

-The grief never heals any bone.

- An idea, like a ghost, must be talked about a little so that it becomes known.

-The difference between construction and creation is that what is built is loved after being built, while what is created is loved before being created.

-Charity begins in our house, while justice in the neighbor's.

-The joy and joviality are the best way to preserve beauty and youth.

-Sir, keep my memory fresh.

-A dream, just a dream that ends in nothing and that leaves the dreamer where he lay. But I want you to know that you inspired it.

-Nothing we do is in vain. I believe with all my soul that we will succeed.

-There are very dark shadows in this land, but by contrast, there is a very bright light to drive them away.

-The era of chivalry is over. The wealthy defeated the dragon.

-He would make a beautiful corpse.

-Everything that I tried to do in life I tried with all the strength of my heart.

-Home is a very strong word. Stronger than any wizard has ever said or to which a spirit has come in response to the most powerful of spells.

-Never close your lips to those who have already opened your heart.

-Sadly there are books where the spine and the cover are the best parts.

-I hope that true love and trust in the end are stronger than any evil or misfortune in the world.

-Credit is the same as a pirate with two wooden legs who goes to another pirate with two wooden legs so that he can believe that his legs are real.

-Bring the bottled lightning bolt, a clean glass and a corkscrew.

-Great men are rarely too scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.