Charles Dickens
Quotations

"It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations."

- Bleak House

 

"I have been writing and planning and making notes over an immense number of little bits of paper--and I never can write legibly under such circumstances. "

- Letter to Collins, March 1855

 

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

 

"I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself."

- From a speech at a Liverpool Banquet

 

"A smothering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing. "

 

"Trifles make the sum of life. "

 

"I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence..."