10 Famous Quotes by Charles Dickens

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

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

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

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

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.

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

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.