The quotations of

Charles Dickens

English novelist and social critic

1812–1870

60 quotes, most often on Christmas, Life & Death and Love. Part of the Writers collection.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
A Christmas Carol (1843), “Ebeneezer Scrooge”, in A Christmas Carol by Charles DickensIn context
- Christmas
I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time. A kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. The only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.
A Christmas Carol (1843)
- Christmas
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
- Christmas
I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday⁠—the longer, the better⁠—from the great boarding school where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest.
“A Christmas Tree”
- Christmas
“Bah!” said Scrooge, “Humbug!”
A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIn context
- Christmas
God bless us every one!
A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIIIn context
- Christmas
- God
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.
A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IVIn context
- Christmas
- Time
I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world.
A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave VIn context
- Christmas
- Happiness
It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!
A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave VIn context
- Christmas

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