Charles Dickens Quotes

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can’t beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.

The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humor.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

Some people are nobody’s enemies but their own.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

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.

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.