The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“...mysteries arise out of close love, as well as out of wide division...” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is no small thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“You do not know what all around you see in Esther Summerson, how many hearts she touches and awakens, what sacred admiration… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Drink with me, my dear, said Mr. Weller. Put your lips to this here tumbler, and then I can kiss you by… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You see," said Mr. Toots, "what I wanted in a wife was - in short, was sense. Money, Feeder, I had. Sense… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And yet I love him. I love him so much and so dearly, that when I sometimes think my life may be… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Opening her eyes again, and seeing her husband's face across the table, she leaned forward to give it a pat on the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And the voices in the waves are always whispering to Florence, in their ceaseless murmuring, of love - of love, eternal and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Well! It was only their love for me, I know very well, and it is a long time ago. I must write… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“But what I cannot settle in my mind is that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Indeed, he married her for love. A whisper still goes about, that she had not even family; howbeit, Sir Leicester had so… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I'd lay down my life for her - Mas'r Davy - Oh! most content and cheerful! She's more to me - gent'lmen… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I have been deceived, before, in the objects whom I have endeavoured to benefit; but I feel strongly disposed to trust you,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“how there were echoes all about her, sweet in her ears, of the many times her father had told her that he… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Now, Bella suspected by this time that Mr. Rokesmith admired her. Whether the knowledge (for it was rather that than suspicion) caused… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
... Natural affections and instincts, my dear sir, are the most beautiful of the Almighty's works, but like other beautiful works of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Mine ain't a selfish affection, you know," said Mr. Toots, in the confidence engendered by his having been a witness of the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Indeed, there was a frankness in his face, an honesty, and an undisguised show of his pride in her, and his love… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces-- love her, love her, love her!” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, and the other… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day… Love is not a passion of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
She better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where… — 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
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