Charles Dickens
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11 quotes we’ve traced to Charles Dickens
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery”
Verified“God bless us, every one!”
Verified“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts”
Verified“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”
Verified“Please, sir, I want some more”
Verified“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some”
Verified“A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self”
Disputed“An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself”
Disputed“Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true”
Disputed“Life Is Just One Damn Thing After Another”
Disputed“The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will'”
DisputedNot actually Charles Dickens
Often misattributed to Charles Dickens
Famous lines widely pinned on Charles Dickens that we’ve traced to someone else.
“A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self”
actually Author unknown
“Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood”
actually Douglas McGrath
“Life Is Just One Damn Thing After Another”
actually Author unknown
“The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will'”
actually Unknown
“There are hopes the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description”
actually Ellen Pickering
“Well, every one for himself, and Providence for us all — as the elephant said when he danced among the chickens”
actually Charles Reade
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