Charles Dickens

There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect ↗

— Charles Dickens

#quarrels #friendship

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#procrastination #procrastination

For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#speech #life

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#explain #ghost #idea #itself #like

We went our several ways," said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#differ #estranged #family #sisters #family

the sight of me is good for sore eyes ↗

— Charles Dickens

#self-confidence #life

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason ↗

— Charles Dickens

#life #life

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#marriage #marriage

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#bores #chivalry #dragons #past #succeeded

Never say never ↗

— Charles Dickens

#philosophy #inspirational