Charles Dickens Quotes

Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.

Charles Dickens

• Candle
• Remembrance
• Christmas time

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• My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Up
  • Long
  • Night

• The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • World
  • Light
  • Candle

• When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Time
  • Children
  • Sea

• Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Day
  • Flame
  • Candle

• Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Faith
  • Proud
  • Walk

• Stay away from other people's partners.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • People

• I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.

  

  Douglas Wood

• My father earned every penny he had, and I would have loved to have bought him a Rolls-Royce because his whole life was cars. Sadly, he didn't live to see the day when I could have done that for him, which still hurts.

  

  Bruce Forsyth
  • Life
  • Live
  • Done

• The Internet is an actor's best friend.

  

  Armie Hammer
  • Friend

• Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

  

  Jeff Koons
  • Art
  • History

• A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.

  

  Ben Harper
  • World
  • Good
  • Light

• Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word... [it has] its own mysteries - this is my birth [control] pill; swallow it in remembrance of me!

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Society
  • Control
  • Beginning

• Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend.

  

  Don McLean
  • Friend
  • Fire
  • Devil

• God, please help us remember that all the darkness in the world cannot snuff out the light of one little candle. Help us to keep lighting our little candles until a mighty torch of justice sweeps our nation and the world.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • World
  • God
  • Remember

• Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • World
  • Blow
  • Strength

• I shall return, doubt it not. Such love as ours was not created to remain unfulfilled. Whatever may happen, believe and trust in me, as I shall in you, and keep the remembrance of me in your heart without sadness and without regret.

  

  Emma Orczy
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • May

• All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Expression
  • Appetite
  • Endless

• Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and that living kind of combustion which goes on within us. In every one of us there is a living process of combustion going on very similar to that of a candle, and I must try to make that plain to you. For it is not merely true in a poetical sense-the relation of the life of man to a taper; and if you will follow, I think I can make this clear.

  

  Michael Faraday
  • Relation
  • Candle
  • Combustion

• Don't curse the darkness, light a candle.

  

  Confucius
  • Light
  • Curse
  • Candle

• All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.

  

  Banksy
  • History
  • Stop
  • Start

• The practice of medicine will be very much as you make it - to one a worry, a care, a perpetual annoyance; to another, a daily job and a life of as much happiness and usefulness as can well fall to the lot of man, because it is a life of self-sacrifice and of countless opportunities to comfort and help the weak-hearted, and to raise up those that fall.

  

  William Osler
  • Men
  • Opportunity
  • Fall

• The reaction to Rita was overly positive, and we're now getting a better sense of what is shut in.

  

  Bob Bartlett
  • Positive
  • Sense
  • Reaction

• It was difficult to exercise him properly, because he was so big that even if I ran—and I was for ever running, in my zeal for his welfare,—he still, to keep up with me, needed only to walk, and if I paused for any reason, such as getting my breath or having to tie my shoelace, instantly he lay down.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Running
  • Reason
  • Exercise

• Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Candle
  • Remembrance
  • Christmas time