A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“why should I seek to change, what has been so precious to me for so long! you can never show better than… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
... when he saw her sitting there all alone, so young, and good, and beautiful, and kind to him; and heard her… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Trust in nothing but in Providence and your own efforts. Never separate the two, like the heathen waggoner. Constancy in love is… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“All through dinner, Flora combined her present appetite for eating and drinking with her past appetite for romantic love, in a way… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“They had a lurking suspicion even, that he died of secret love; though I must say there was a picture of him… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“...if they would but think how hard it is for the very poor to have engendered in their hearts, that love of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“What do I know, father,' said Louisa in her quiet manner, 'of tastes and fancies; of aspirations and affections; of all that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Never, never, before Heaven, have I thought of you but as the single, bright, pure, blessed recollection of my boyhood and my… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If you will take me for your wife, Walter, I will love you dearly. If you will let me go with you,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The sudden and uncalled for coldness with which you treated me just before I left last night, both surprised and deeply hurt… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Such a number of nights,' said the girl, with a touch of woman's tenderness, which communicated something like sweetness of tone, even… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — Charles Dickens Copy Share
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“evening, they began to think that although he could never hope to be an Englishman, still it would be hard to visit that affliction… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“Besides which, all that I could have said of the Story to any purpose, I had endeavoured to say in it.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“The wheels rolled on, and rolled down by the Monument, and by the Tower; and by the Docks; down by Ratcliffe, and by Rotherhithe;… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“The three customers pulled off their hats to Madame Defarge, with three flourishes. She acknowledged their homage by bending her head, and giving them… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share
![“...if they would but think how hard it is for the very poor to have engendered in their hearts, that love of home from which all domestic virtues spring, when they live in dense and squalid masses where social decency is lost, or rather never found ... and [those who rule] strive to improve the…” quote by Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b75/charles-dickens-34_day-to-day_if-they-would-but-think-how-hard-it-is-f_773015.jpg)
