Last Updated November 27th, 2017
A heart-warming quote by English writer-critic Charles Dickens.
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Charles Dickens
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As I have mentioned above, the quote “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year” is taken from Charles Dickens’ 1843 classic novella, “”.
Christmas In My Heart Quote By Charles Dickens
Among his many books, “A Christmas Carol” which also known as “A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas” is still very popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre till today.
This novella was influenced by his own past experiences and from also the Christmas stories of authors, like Washington Irving and Douglas Jerrold.
The first edition of “A Christmas Carol” was published on 19 December 1843.
The first edition were sold out by Christmas Eve.
By the end of 1844, a total of thirteen editions had been released.
And it was well received by most literary critics.
By the way, here are a few more of my favorite quotes from “A Christmas Carol“.
“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” – Charles Dickens
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“…No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused!” – Charles Dickens
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“…I should have liked… to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet to have been man enough to know its value.” – Charles Dickens
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“For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.” – Charles Dickens
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“His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.” – Charles Dickens
(This quote is also found in: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books By Charles Dickens, Contributed And Edited By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, OUP Oxford, 2008A Christmas Carol, Stave V: The End Of It; p.83)
“A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of December!” – Charles Dickens
(This quote is also found in: A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens, Lulu.com, 1977, Stave One: Marley’s Ghost; p.12)
“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.” – Charles Dickens
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“Christmas time…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, and to think of people below them…” – Charles Dickens
(This quote is also found in: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books By Charles Dickens, Contributed And Edited By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, OUP Oxford, 2008A Christmas Carol, Stave I: Marley’s Ghost; p.1872)
“What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, and not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in ’em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you?” – Charles Dickens
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Here is a free collection of Charles Dickens’ e-books.